Evening Star Newspaper, November 7, 1925, Page 16

THE EVENING - STAR.- - WASHINGTON, /D, - (.. SATURDAY.- NOVEMBER - 7: COOKS THE PRESIDENT'S TURKEY. Scout Leona Baldwin of Mont- pelier, Vi, who came to Washington to cook the turkey for the Girl Scout Tuncheon to the President and Mrs. Coolidge today. Leona hrought the \ermont turkey. CopyHiht by P. & A. Photox CANTER WINS THE RiCH FUTURITY STAKE AT PIMLICO. The thoroughbred trom the Griffith <tahls defeated Bubbling Over by o winning a purse of $60,000 ior his owner. Jockey Clarence Turner rode Canter Copyright by P. & A. Photo ald. promise AP WASHINGTON BOY. SON OF ALIEN COUPLE. IS BUDDING POET. Harrs Vall 11 year one of his poems to his father. The latter cannot read or write English, but Harry <hows grear a student and with his unusual poems. Copy thwy P. & nosc. as TONE VIBRATIONS NOW BEING USED TO EXTINGUISH FLAMES department that it is possible 1o THE YOUNGEST “WHITE RIBBONER.” Edward Lee Bowie. 16 months old. <on of Mr. and Mrs. Pleasanion C. Bowie, who took the pledge of the Charles Kellogg, a scientist, demonstrating to members of the Boston fire Kellozg extinguished a gas flame by whistling «nd by drawing a violin bow over A BOY. A DOG AND AN APPLE. Billy gton City Orphanage,” i« helping celeb the sweetheart of the Wash ut out a fire by tone vibrations. ional Apple week. He Woman's Christian Temperance Union during the convention at the First Chusch Copyright by Miller Servicr GIRL SCOUTS HOSTS T0 MRS, COGLIDGE Atends Movie and Luncheon as Drive for Fund Opens Here. Action of Parent For Bobbing Girl’s Hair Thrown Out B the Associated Press DIJON, France. November An outraged parent who brought” suit for damage. gainst a barber, for hobbing his daughter's hair, got no sympithy from the court. His cluim was rejected and he was con-. demned 10 puy the costs of the action The court held that was an act of evervey minors could not be expected to hri written zuthor tion from their parents esch time they sought the services of » barber, and that the harber couid be proved at fault only if he 2 2gainst the clearly expressed The decisfon in t in the bud a whole cre contemplated by p: ious barbers in this, the capital ol Burgundy HIGH-RANKING ARMY OFFICERS TO RETIRE Six Generals in Lict Due to Leave haircutting life: that! Girt exchamging scores of local Girl Scou f m.kinz them feel st glrls,” Mrs. ¢ ttended the n a regulation Seou nd - familiarty vith i i the ESiah special Girl i the Tivoli.The The First Lady the time et vrogram. ind movie fx was_com < upan_the T ublic: h Girl Seouts of A the openinz todiy Arive i< when tion norninz nning of the ich the film <h Military - Service in Next Year at Lunch the b ~ident I efter vicked sneheon uts at 4l 1730 manc Whils Presi izt ni un Eleven hizhranking officers of Army will be tr {tired list on account |accordir st the the re- in 1926, issued nsferred age tement < 10 v of e lunch Betty iundize nd - served the Nichats, who wiked e Vialet Rieg Joly: Wdna Simpson. Yved the potatves; Leal on d rienberries: Huth Huni, Avea. San Franciseo Woodley. Betsy Gur | March 20 Drig. Gen. John mith, pumplin pic. |Inger. assistant to Quariermaster who nade th ngton, D. .. April Robert H. Killman, In- fth Corps Area, Bri=. Gen. John rrette, bLase. Boston, 14; Col. Charles C. pokane. Wash., Gen. Har Wa'shi cied ax lerved i e Briz D. sistant to Surgeon Gener . C., March st Gen James Glenn: snd *Hon, whe onee Weodhory, phsctieut | Westein H this afternoon re- [D. olden euglet, the highest |} ¢ Girl Seouts. sat in the |Infunt < Cooldze ot the Tivoliing) June 13: Maj Others in Mrs. Cool- |chief of Ingineers, ere M Henvy Flather, | : Col. Gec C < Lindsay, ir.: Gertit, ited_ States Disciplinary heod Wilkinson and |rac Fort_Leuvenworth, iuns., S verles Sheldon ltember 18; Maj. Gen. Andre Drewster, T commanding general, 1st Corps A | Boston, Mass., December 9: Lieut. Col. Albert B. Sloan, Infantry, 77th DI ision, Organized Reserves. 35 White- 1 street, New York City, December Col. Joseph P. O'Neil. Infantry, headquarters Srd Corps. Ave, Bulti- more, Md., December 27. dg 1., enior vho will Honer Patrol. the honor pa tard of honor were Mary Durand. Eliz flith net Hock., tynth el Chufee. Dorothy lizebeth Coon. Mary Phylli ) i, CatStine Berie ‘DISABLED SHIP TOWED IN fan Watts, Caroline Be Ju'ta Bel), uth Sha Tank Steamer, With 2.500.000 Gal- lons Oil Aboard, Rescued. Steele, Effie Wade and Luc WOODS HOLE, Mas: the zolden e t presentation to Miss | (o) _The American tank steamer Weber at the Church of the EpIphany | phoenix, bound to Boston from San I.ie this affernoon. Miss Weber has | pedro, Calif., with 2,500,000 gallons of heen u scout for nearly five vears and | crude’ oil in bulk, which reported W weon 21 merit: baudges and the | Thursday that she was disabled 200 medal of merit—a Scout, Class 1. miles south of Nantucket, was towed — into Narragansett :Kuy yeutergaylb 5 . the Coast Gux estroyer Henley, De Pinedo Completes Flight. the Coast Guard station here reported ROME, November 7 (®).—Comdr. |iast night. The Phoenix ran short of incesco de Pinedo, Italian aviator, | fucl and asked for ass} She was Ltoday completed his record breaking | expected to proceed to Boston after yeturn flight from = Tokio. arviving | refucling either” af Fall [ h se ) Napler at § p.m. Providence, R. 1 5 who Ir \iembers ¢ sy, ie Mre. Herbert Hoaver, chairman of | the national executive-committee of | the Girl Scouts of America. will make r . 1 AMencher, commanding general, uth | - |counsel. ovember 7| fork TTING THE TABLE FOR THE PRESIDENTS TURKEY LUNCHEON. Washington ( eir drive this afternoon. The turkey for the occasion was brought from Vermont by Miss Leona Baldwin. Girl Scout of Monipelier, Vt. The Little House.” prepared for the festivities. is south of the White House. th TOBACCO PRICE FIXING CHARGES DISMISSED | Federal Trade Board. in Split De- cision. Absolves Big Concerns of Unfair Praetices. Fed- the ves n decision feral {dismissed ber jobbe unfai another split Trade Commis: n complaint against anufactu ns which ¢k practices. Con and Thompson cco 1ssociat ess Bt dis- bire announcement that was based upon recom- 1 of the ‘commisston’s ch no stitement plaininz this decision. link memhers, however, {that they would later make public statement of their position. | Thec seyond (the dismis | mendutic The ‘dissen e had been under investiga tion for more “than ‘two vears and involved 10 complaints charging {combination to fix ‘and maintain Istundard resale prices for tobacco { produets. { Manufacturers named jncluded the | American Tobuceo . €o.. P. Lorillard [Co.. Inc., of Jersey City. Tobacco Products Corporation, Lisgett & | Myers Tobaccg Co. of New York (it {Larus & Bre. Co. of Richmond. Va. {and Scotten-Dillon Ce. of Detroit. Fourtegn jobbers' associations were named: Navy Asked to Canal Opening. | Secretary Wilhur |advisement a request has taken under for Navy par- ing the formal opening next Sprin lof the Lake deeper waterway canal in Louisiana He indicated that the Navy could have a ship there and otherwise par- ticipate if the date for the opening WiLE Probilly could be dons, rl Scouts preparing t 'All Women Will Work to Help Home Within 50 Years, Mrs. Catt Predicts| 'N MERGER OF FIVE FIRMS made ex- | announced | S e e MILWAUKEE, Wi Within & half centur:; s. hodied woman will be at wor er hushand to make a living for the tamily November T every able- < helping | pressure on the men of | Mrs hold will make it necessary | ces to enter employment, and it | take the -combined efforts of all will ‘make both ends meet.” And electricity will of the future. be housemaid™ These are some of the observations of Mrs. Carrle Chapman Catt, suf- fragist 1éader, who is in Milwaukee to address the convention of school teach ers today. Catt declared that the cost of living and the standards of living will rontinue to go up. and because of these facts she belleves that the cling- ing vine type of woman will pass out of the picture during the next 50 vears Guilty, With Two Others, of Shoot- ing Protectéd Birds. JACKSONVILLE, Fia (). —Howard Candler, son November 7 of Asa | CANDLER’S SON FINED. |AIR RECORDS RECOGNIZED N. A. A. Approval Given Bettis and Doolittle Performances. The National Aeronautic Association has recognized as world records the | Candler, Atlanta soft drink manufac- | performances of Lieut. Cyrus Bettis turer ton County Atlania College, Court here uilty were fined Sheriff J. W. Griswold of Ful Ga., and J. H. lLiroker and trustee of Emory $5 in Ewing Féderal | esterday -when pleas of | to violation of {he migratory | bird act were entered for them.. The ifine was assessed by -Judge Rhydon { M. Call. also | B. J. Pacetti, Uniled States game | { warden for Florsda, who had capfases | ticipation in the ceremonies attend- Charles-to-the-Gulf | served on the trio several mdaths | ago. appeured in eourt for them, en tered the pleas of their fines. evard sullty and pald During a hunting trip in | County last November. the | warden sald, while the men were hunt. | ducks, they shot birds protected | the Government. He obtained war- | No. of the Army, in winning the Pulitzer race at Mitchel Field, and of Lieut. | James H. Doolittle, also of the Army, in winning the Schneider trophy at Baltimore. Lieut Bettis an airplane made 100 kilometers at a rate «of 249.337 miles an hour and 200 kilometers at a rate of 248.975. Lijeut. Doglittle in a seaplane made a max away speed of 245.713 miles an hour, and for 100 kilometers he traveled at the rate of 234.772 miles an hour. The long-distance American record was awarded Comdr. John Rodgers and Lieut. Byron Connell of "the Navy Hawailan flight plane "PN-9 1, who were credited with an on rants for them after investigating the | airline jump of 1,992 statute miles case. Though she is only 15 years old, | golf title for zirls, were . shifted slightly. — It was said | Miss- Enid Wilson holds - the English | before coming down near Hawali. Mortality statistics show that coun- try womien have the. best chande of af taining a ripe old age. Looking into the future, | mum straight- |, Wide World Photo ) { o serve the luncheon which opened Copyright Ly Harris & Ewing [$20,000,000 SYNDICATE | Combine Proposes to Operate Ten [ Hotel Prejects in United | States and Canada. By the Assoc NEW ted Press YORK November 7.—The hotel syndicate which will operate 10 projects in various parts of the United States and Canada was announced | here last night. | The organization, known a¢ the Continental-Leland . Corporation, Is | composed of the Continental Hotels Co., Inc.; Leland Hotels, Inc.: Sweet Fearey & Co., Inc.; Reserve Mortgage Bond Co., Inc., and the Shelco Engi- neering Co. With the Shelton Hotel in New York as the first of the chain, the new corporation, according to S. H. Anderson, president of the Continental Hotels C has in operation, under 'more, Detroit, Sherbrooke, Chimney Rock. N. C.; Sedgefleld, N. C.; Tryon, N. C.,,.and Hamiiton, N. Y. s VIOLATED LABOR LAW. Closed by Police. /ERA CRUZ, Mexico, November 7 | P).—The police here have closed 32 business houses, a_majority of them Spanish, because of alleged non-com-| pliance with the labor law, which | provides for the émployment of a per- | centage of Mexicans by forelgn com-| cerns in the state of Vera Cruz. When | imerchants started to open their stores yesterday they found them sealed. | construction or.ready to bufld, hotels | in Philadelphia, Lansing, Mich.; Balti- | Canada; | '82 Business Houses in Vera Cruz| Some of them breke the seals and apened for husiness. The Merchants’ ! | for raliet. E came in for a large share when two tributed at the institution. Borah Will Urge Return of Seized German Property Chairman Borah of the Senate foreign relations committee an nounced vesterday he would intro duce a bill at the next session of Cangress calling for the return of | German property in the hands of thesalien property custodia “This property was taken at a when a treaty existed hetween the United States and Germany that property of the nationals of. each should be protected even in time of war.” he said. "It is a mat i ter of good faith to return it now CLERGY TO GIVE AID IN RED CROSS DRIVE Will Tomorrow Speak From Pul- pits on Organization's Constant “Peace-Time ~Activities. By the Associated Press Clergymen throughout the land will extoll from thelr pulpits tomorrow the humanitarian peace-time activities of the American Red Cross The day has been set aside a< Red Cross Sunday. observance of which is a preliminary to the society’s annual | roll call, which begins Armistice day, November 11, and is the period during which the people tunity to indorse the first-aid move- ment by joining the ranks of the Red Cross. are given oppor- Because of its memorable service in | the World War, said a statement by the society, there is a disposition | regard the Red Cross as “primarily | a war machine, and to overlook the | fact that it has a peace mission of merger of five firms into a $20.000.000 | equal importance.” Recognition of this feeling. the so ciety sald, has led to the designation each year of a Sunday to be devoted to the Red Cross, and ministers, in their sermons tomorrow, are expected to emphasize that the organization “unlike the great military forces it | served with in war, is still fighting and has been fighting every vear since the armistice, with the same zeal it | put into its war work." “In fact, the end of the war,” the society continued, “'in many instarices imposed new and larger obligations upon it, and in the past few vears there is scarcely a country in the world where it has not acted in behalf of the American people. “Congress, through charter, has designated the American Red Cross as the volunteer reliet agency of the peo ple. of the whole Nation, shouldered bur- dens at home and abroad, which in magnitude are comparable to those of the war." | FILMS PROVE POPULAR. | Take in Third of Theater Money | Spent in Paris. Cosrespondence of the Associated Press. PARIS, October 12.—Patrons of the “seventh art"—as the French call the | cinema—contributed one-third of the | entire amount spent in 1924 by the | theater-going public of Paris to the | movies. - The box offices in the 100 and | Astockution *has ap- | more cinema houses in the capital and | Orleans, Texas and L pealed to Gov. Jara amd the courtssuburbs 12st yeur took in 100,500,000 [ was approved today by the Interstate fruncs. In this guise, it has, in the name | barrels of rich, red apples were d JAPANESE OPPOSE INTERIM TARIFFS Delegate Protests Against | Chinese Proposal as Breed- er of More Delay. PLKING, November proposals for interlm tar evied prior to the restor: ariff autonomy, met witk opposition yesterday in stoms conterence’s mittee, charged with the f linterim measures. ! “Fki Hicki of the Japanese delezu tion said that interim levies highe thun those authorized by 4 |ington tariff treaty (a 21 lgeneral strtax and 5 per luxuries, in addition to the gener:l tafTff of 5 per cent ad valorem) wou'd be heyond the competence of this con- erence Furthermore, he said ichanges would require further inte national agreements. involving dela and™also would vit affect the dustry and commerce of Japan The Chinese delegition presented memo: the un- foreseen delay of s interver ing between the W on confer jence and the present gathering had made China's financial embarrass ment more acute today than in China’s tarlff situation, it was serted. by comparison with that other nations, was lacking in justice and equity For these sald. their government by way of a | measure 1o levy on wines by the n tonomy sh SURTA! “hin 10 n of full per cer cent o reasons. the Chinese had dectded compromise interim 30 per cent tariff nd tobaceo, to be replaced tlonal tariff lJaw when au- become effective. PLAY PLAINED. MacMurray Gives Details of Chinese Proposal. A detailed report of the explanation | given by the Chinese delegation at the | Peking customs conference of its re , Sons for proposing a 30 per cent sur tax duty on whie and tobacco impor and a 20 per cent surtax rate on other articles of luxury, was received yes terday at the State Department from | Minister MacMurray. | The question was debated by the jconference committee dealing with I provisional measures to be taken hn { China pending complete restoration of | tariff autonomy Admiral Tsai of the Chinese group |cited that other countries levied duties | of 100 per cent or more on tobacco and spirlts, “while the prohibition of a! | coholic consumption in the United |Flatl‘s is well known all over the | world.” China, he added, had an % per cent internal tax on tobacco and wine of native origin, while the same articles when imported paid a tota] duty of 73z per cent “These commodities pander cravings of the human race,” he said. “It fis true that the consumer will shoulder heavier burdens, but i is equally true that the imposition of higher duies will not impede trade and commerce.” to the Railway Purchase Given 0. K. The purchate of the San Antoni Uvalde and-Gulf Railroad by the Mexico Railro: Commerce Commission. ‘