Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1925, Page 12

TWISTED REMAINS OF THE »ws what was done to the great took a toll of 14 lives, EXCLUSIVE PHOTO OF the nose of the She It carried all but one o section broke to p and crumpled ONEKILLED AS NE RUM WAR STARTS THE CR drifted e surviv Two LiguoT Boats Seized Off New Jersey Coast—Other Craft Sought. from 100 iles ed about 1no ached s found rmen 1 point ut to land reach in Offshore. reported th cepti to month on of the that came : believed to uner which has been in nication with Montre 1ding ut iles off v several day s alsc s, it w reported DENIES CANDIDACY. SPOKANE, ) —Vi a trai Seattle fo Wash sident om September Dawes, speak- r end veling to candidate statement hea to bri pressure upc eir Senators for revision of the ate rules. “There are a lot of fellows talking ebout me being in politics, trying to create the impre: n that I am try- ing to be what is a ter of simple duty, for political purpos This is not so, and don’t believe it. the > was tr not a the while U a 'ROYAL BABE IS GIVEN SHEN steel frame when it hit the earth. The ¢ ASH. d ors. This picture was taken just as into the trees near Sharon, Ohio. After the photo was taken this Copyright by P. & A. Photos WORKER DIES INSTANTLY l FROM TOUCH OF LIVE WIRE | Elmer S. Carrick Killed When He Attempts to Cut Off Electric | Switch at Plant. | Elmer 8. Carrick, 33 y instantly killed yesterday when his hand touched a live wire in attempt- ing to cut off an electric switch at the al Woodworking Co. plant, 39 | w York avenue northeast, where | was employed He was taken to S automobile, but ph > bad died instantly An inquest into this case, into the death of Samuel M n, 25 vears old, colored | on a construction operation at Seven- | teenth and I streets, Who was killed in a fall down an elevator shaft terday, is beir trict Morgus old, was PLAIN AMERICAN NAME | Princess Xenia, Former Miss Leeds, Calls Daughter “Nancy,” Dis- carding ‘‘Helene Marie.” By the Asso by W YORK, September Marie Leeds, 6-month-old ro grand- {da ter of the late “tin plate King" is beck from her Parisian christening as a plain American has lost the name n her in ¥ He I | Russ 1been c {and N ated Press. Helene v mother, Xeni said that ielene Marie” had aside for just plain-“‘Nancy,” cy she would always be, jus s he would be forever i Her father. W. B. Leeds, has ta Long Island estate. They plan to be in_this country for some time. “We are Am ns, you know,"” princess said, “and we want to live in our own countr e But Naney, with all her royal blood coloring her rosy cheeks, might have | been even more fortunate. By the terms of the late “tin plate King’s | will the $40,000,000 estate can only be | inherited by a male issue. | In the Leeds party on the Aquitania | vesterday was Prince Paul of Greece, 11 blonde vouth 23‘years old, who | | wears a monocle and a valet. | | SAFE ROBBER IS EXPERT. Works Without Tofl]sfll\nd Escapes | With $1,908. | entered the establishment Boaze & Co., commission at 204 Tenth street, last | night and - stole $400 in bills" and check: for $1,508.60 from the safe. ry was obtained through a rear of | Thieves | of Hatche! | merchants, Police believe that the safe was opened either by one who had discov | ered the combination numbers or by a modern Jimmy Valentine, who could feel the drop of tumbiers as his sen- | sitive fingers sought out the combi- | nation. Bam In the United States more than 2,000 women In 1,977 cities are employed as | veterans |and clam bakes for bait. executives in banks and trust com- panies. THE EVENING NDOAH IN AN OHIO CORNFIELD. This picture, taken yesterday, rash of “The Daughter of the Stars’ Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Miss Mary Donahue, fiance of Ever- ett P. Allen, aviation chief rigger, who was killed in the Shenandoah crash. Miss Donahue, who lives in Omaha, Nebr., holds the death mes- sage. Copyrig Photos. V.F.W.BODY MEETS NEXTINEL PASO Former Soldiers Extol Texas City as “Oasis in Arid Waste.” by P & A By the Associated Pres: TULSA, OKla., /September 0, extolled by its delegates as an arid waste, will entertain ampment of Veterans of Foreign Wars. The Texas city was chosen at the closing session of the national encampment here yesterday, after a spirited, fight had been made by Eastern delegates to take the gath- ering to New York. The highest office of the organiza- tion was awarded to an Eastern man. Fred Stover of Butler, Pa., was chosen on the first ballot over Frank T. 8 er of Indiana and Clarence L. Candler of Michigan. Advantages of the Easternand South- eastern cities were placed before the nvention by their respective pro- ponents. El Paso champions dangled Juarez, ‘Mexico, before the veterans’ eyes as a convincing argument. Unlabeled “Beer” Free. They were told that a short street car ride over the international line would deliver them in a land where Federal officials dare not tread. A brewery where the word “Near" is un- known would be turned over to the for one day of the encamp- ¥ oasis in an he 1926 en ment. New Yorkers used Coney Island They de- scribed El Paso as the home of heat prostration. The organization accepted the offer of a 470-acre farm at Eaton Springs, ich., to be used as a national home for its members. The lErm was of- fered by Correy J. Spehcer, on the condition that full control would pass into the hands of the veterans after ten years. | Council Members Chosen. zht new members of the national council of administration were elect- ed in district caucuses. Half of the council is elected each yvear for a term of two years. The incoming membe: are Elliott McDonald, Massachusetts; Dr. Frank Wheelock, Pennsylvaniai John Lewlis, Tennessee; Francis J. Cook, Ohio; W. J. Farling, Missourl; T. G. Hortung, Chicago; Christian Iltner, Washington; John W. Mulligan, New Jersey (vacancy). The office is rotated among the States comprising each district. Judge J. F. O'Brien of Tulsa was elected senior vice commander of the organization. He defeated Arthur Bennett, jr., of Bridgeport, Conn. Other officers chosen for a year are: H. M. Levitt, San Francisco, junior vice commander; Theodore Stitt, Brooklyn, judge advocate general; Robert B. Handy, Washington, D. C., quartermaster general; Dr. W. J. Soper, Minneapolis, surgeon general, and Dr. J. P. Head, Versallles, Ky., national chap/hln. C., SATURDAY, MRS. LANSDOWNE MAK A ST commander of the Shenandoah talking with newsp hurst, N. J., home yesterday. Mrs. The wife of the dead per men at her stated that her husband ATEMENT. Lansdowne took charge of the flight after he had protested to the Navy Department. vy P. & A. Photos. SEPTEMBER o, 1925. WRECKED C rode Comdr. Lieut. Sheppard of Washington was in the front part of the dirigible, and was killed when he dr a girder. THE NAVY’S FIRST OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE SHENANDOAH CRASH. Lieut. W. L. Richardson, chief aerial photograph make a report to crash. retary of the Variet poses, Fails to Pay Its Uncle Sam, one of our everybody knows, is most prominent local | ises quite a variety of crops | in considerable quantities at his e perimental farm at Arlington and at | his model dairy farm at Beltsville. Md., to say nothing of specialty croy at a half dozen other places n Washington. But the old gentleman is money-making farmer. He putter around the places unique experiments with this that thing, not even expecting farms to pay for themselves. were not for his generous nephews | and nieces, the old homesteads would have gone under the hammer years ago. 4 Like all other farmers, Uncle Sam | has his troubles with those mysterious influences which establish prices and | with the vagaries of the law of supply and demand. Sometimes he has a fine crop ready to harvest and then finds that it is not worth gathering. Some- times he gets it to market and finds that the bottom has dropped out overnight. Last year was a very successful one | on his farms. But the gross income was only about $18,000, not a splash in the bucket of expenditures for hired men, fertilizers, etc. Products on Sale Here. All of his farm products available for sale are disposed of at a store in the baserment of the administration building of the Department of Agri- culture, in charge of the captain of the watch. They are sold at slightly below the market price, to compen- sate purchasers for lugging them home. Most of the customers are department employes, although the store is open to anybody. Uncle Sam does not consider him- self in competition with the city markets. His sales are so small, com- paratively, that they make no differ- ence, whereas he cannot be expected to throw away $18,000 to $20,000 a year, especially in these hard times when he is looking out for every penny. Three bureaus supply most of the produce. From the Arlington farm come principally apples, with a very few grapes and peaches and some vegetables in season. Nearly 3,000 bushels of apples were sold last vear. There is a fine orchard at Arlington, consisting of more than 500 trees, but there are only two each of the same variety. Some are good bearers and some very poor. A considerable part of the harvest is not sold at all, but used in further experiments, such as in storing, canning or cider making. The vegetable crop at’Arlington is very small. A few years ago, when free seeds were distributed by the de- partment, a large, flourishing vege- table garden was maintained. The produce was furnished to the mess at Fort Myer. Fort Myer would be en- titled to a garden of its own in the Arlington reservation if it demanded it. In the experimental vegetable garden days the Departmerit of Agri- culture made an agreement to supply not a likes to trying | thing or the If it |s Navy Wilbur. The photograph shows , %ho was aboard the ill-fated Shenandoah, the first survivor to arrive in Washington and Licut. Richardson explaining the Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. TTLE FOR WORK of Produce, Grown for Experimental Pur- Costs Despite Its Ex- cellence—Finds Market Here. the fort rather than have another large garden arried on wit.out scien- tific knowledge, so close at hand. The mess still gets some vegetables. 8,428 Dozen Eggs Sold. The eggs and meat come from the Beltsville farm of the Bureau of Ani mal Industry. Last year 8,428 dozen eggs were sold in the department store. The pri n about the market wholesale price, but no effort was made to grade the eggs. Small pullet were mixed in in ers_are product Ct y_on the market From the Bureau of Chemistry the store receives twice r about 30 pounds of tea which has been sent in for tests and allowed to accumulate. The one product on hand every day of the vear is American Swi ed from the dairy division < is striving to produce American product which will have all the advantages of the Swiss and at the same time infringe on none of the patented methods. A great deal is produced in the course of the experi- ments. It is sold for 20 cents a pound, whereas the European product brings about 80 cents. sold, as well s Lamb is T Ice Cream Goes Fast. About once a month a supply of ice cream, made in the course of experi- ments, is received from the dairy di- vision. This is sold for 10 cents a pint, and usually is all gone in a very short time. Sales of butter and cream are han- dled by an organization inside the dairy division. The actual harvest of Uncle Sam’s farms is far less than the casual ob- server, noting flourishing fields, might believe. Everything is_grown for ex- perimental purposes. Sometimés the purpose of the experiment is com- plied with when the crop is half grown. If so, it is removed to make way for some other experiment. Oftentimes the Government experi- ments with varieties which do not prove good bearers, so that the har- vest is so small it would be waste of money to gather it. At the experimental farm at Bell, Md., this year there were 10 acres of seedling strawberries. ° They com- prised a great number of varieties. Some vingg-were loaded with berries. Others would bear only one or two all season. The Bureau of Horticul- tural Investigation was unwilling to use up any of pick them. The crop was turned over on the vines to the finance and sup- ply division, which paid for the labor of picking and realized about $400 on the crop. ~ All the receipts of the store go into the Treasury. Ay Al Rev. Lillian Herrick Chapman, an ordained minister of the Congrega- tional Church, has become one of the pastors of a large church in Eimira, cens are still more rare- | its appropriation to |. * HAS BIG DECREASE Only About One-Sixth as Many in Prisons Now as 50 Years Ago. | Correspondence of The Star and New York LONDON, August 20.—Striking sta- tistics showing the decrease of crime in Great Britain were given by Home | Secretary Sir William Johyson-Hicks | at the opening of the Interna | Prison Congress here. Fifty ago, said Sir William, there 0,000 people serving sentenc penal servitude and 20,000 le fenders in local jails. Today there are only 1,600. undergoing penal servitude {and 8,000 in local jails. To these must be added 1,100 juvenile offenders con. fined in the detention jails called “Borstal institutions.” The number of prisons required in Great Britain has correspondingly de- l¢c eased, for whereas 50 years ago Britain had to maintain 118 local pris- ons and 13 penal servitude center: they now only needed 31 local prison: and four penal servitude institutions. This, despite the great increase in population. The reason for this decrease, said the home secretary, was mainly bot- ter education, improved sobriety and improvement in the standard and conditions of living, also in the care taken by judges and magistrates to make the greatest possible use of the alternative to detention. However, a great deal has been accomplished by modern nad more humane methods of dealing with offenders. Training the Real Aim. The time has pas said Sir William, ‘“when an executive gov- ernment considered it had done its duty to society when it had arrested an offender. In depriving a human being of his liberty an executive gov- ernment has undertaken a new re. sponsibility of the very gravest kind —that of the treatment and training Of the offender during his incarcera- on. “A man does not lose his rights as a human being because he has broken the law. A man must not come out of prison in such a condition of mind and body that he is no longer fit to take his'place in society. The state is free to experiment upon prisoners with mental, and physical forces, with a view to their restoration to a state of normal citizenship. = This is the object of every one of our prison ad- ministrators.” Explaining new methods, the home secretary said, two experiments were being conducted at present in regard to prisons. One was that Wormwood Scrubs prison (one of the most famous jails in the London district) had been organized on the basis of the idea of a separate establishment for first of- fenders. A few months ago this prison was set aside entirely for men com- mitted from the London area who had never been in prison before, with the object of training them in an environ- ment free from the prison atmosphere. The prison at Wakefleld (Yorkshire) “were AVAV \ANT ATAV 2 L8/ ¥ Ly ' s § NTROL CAR OF SHENANDOAH, WHERE 13 MEN LOST THEIR LIVE ansdowne, Lieut. Comdr. Hancock and others, parted from the dirigible when the storm struck. THEIR FATHER KIL 10, and Pegey manded the Shenandoah Lansdowne home in Lakehurs and was N RAILROAD COAL COST DRASTICALLY REDUCED | aith i Pounds Consumed Per 1,000 Gross Ton Miles—Record Best in History. 127 o Press AGO, September g fuel consumption, s he most striking in Interstate Com the oper ating results of the r in June. “The number of pounds of coal con- | imed per 1,000 gross ton miles of | ad fre rvice was only 127. This s the b cord fo nt use of fuel eve je by the railways in freight service in any month, previous record being 3 which was made imAugu The making of this new low record for Summer months was due entirely to the improvement in locomotives that is constantly going on, and to im- provement in the supervision of en nd in the way that employ By te As CHI regard | | time | ment of Science, now in session here, | by its president, Prof. Horace Lamb, | in his opening addr The new subsea craft is planned by a Dutch scientist, Dr. Victor Meinesz, to carry instruments spectally de- igned for the study of the gravita- ional effects of the rocks of the ocean bottom, which are as yet very little understood. 0ld Theory Discarded. Prof. Lamb discussed in his address the physical properties of the in- terior of the earth, concerning which he is an acknowledged authority. He stated that the old idea of a molten, interior of our planet was long ago discarded by scientists, and that | we now know, by studies of the be- havior of hquake waves and by other means, that the earth as a |whole is as id as steel within | Though the inside of the earth is not | molten, it is still very hot, he said, for=the outer layers serve as a h | insulating blanket, just like the as- | bestos jacket of a steam engine. At the core o fthe earth, occupying abou ourth of its total diame- s of very dense material cal behavior is very pe- Prof. Lamb said. It yields like stiff tar, under long, slow it to sudden shocks lke kes, and even to vilrations whose length 'may be measured in days or weeks, it behaves as though it were rigid. Semi-Fluid Layer. Coming a little closer to the sur- face, Prof. Lamb told of a viscous stratum about 60 miles down, on which the mountains literally float, like foam on water. It is this semi- fluid layer that permits the face of the earth to change, mountains to fold, and continents to drift. Another feature of the session was the report of a committee appointed to investigate what is known to sci- entists as ‘“parthenogenesis,” or the production of animals from virgin fe- males. Moths and sawflies had been produced without fathers for 13 and 9 generations, respectively, the commit- tee stated. During all this time no weakness was discovered, and only § males appeared among 2,000 insects produced. The scientists will next ex- tend their experiments to vertebrates, probably using frogs as their firet material LEAVES PRESIDENCY. Saavedra Gives Post to Head of | \ Senate Pending Election. La PAZ, Bolivia, September 5 (®). | —President Saavedra has turned over the office of chief executive of the re. public to Felix Guzman, president of the Senate. The Bolivian congress on September 1 annulled the election of Jose Gabino Villanueva to the presi- dency. New elections will be called for Decembe: —_—. e has been kept for those whose sen- tences are long enough to enable them to take advantage of the opportunity of industrial training afforded. No one is admitted to this prison with a sen- tence of less than six months, and 11-hour day—9 hours work, 2 hours ion—is enforced. The results so far been encouraging and the system would doubtiess be extended later. Prison Spirit Changes. “There Is a change of spirit in our prisons today,” continued the home secretary. ‘““The atmosphere is one of hope rather than despair, and among the prisoners there is co-operation with the prison regime rather than opposition to it. The prisoners look upon officers as friends rather than enemies.” Separa prisons e confinements in English had_been _almost entirely abolished. Systems of voluntary edu- cation had been inaugurated and prison libraries had improved out of | all knowledge. Cell windows were now made to open and prisoners were allowed to see visitors naturally, with- out bars. The object was to promote self-respect by avoiding any unneces- sary degradation. Instead of stern repression a new system of strenuous | training and education had been | adopted. The home secretary expressed the opinion that short sentences were ab- solutely useless. A few weeks' im- prisonment did not give the authori- ties a chance, and was npt long enough to make people dread the idea of prison. He hoped that the system of probation and fines would be ex- tended. ED IN DIRIGIBLE CRASH. ged 3. children of Comdr. Z killed. (N 4] Vi ¥ This car, in which opped with Copy P. & A. Photos. McKinnan, aged chary Lansdowne, who com- Photograph snapped at the . yesterday afternoon SUBNARINES MADE FOR ROCK STUDIES British Scientist Describes Physical Properties of Interior of Earth. & A. Photos Special Dispatch to The Star. SOUTHAMPTON, England, Septem- Mber 3.—Submarines are to be used in the near future in a study of the densest and hardest rocks on earth, which ove under the sea. This new peace-time use of the former war- terrors was announced to the s | British Association for the Advance- fier culiar, slow] str earthqu