Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1925, Page 17

EXERCISES AT THE LINCOLN N STATUE AT NOON YESTERDAY. KEEP THEIR LIFEBELTS AS S( JUVENIR of the survivors A celebration of Veterans' day, in honor of the Grand Army of the Republic, by William B. Cushing Camp. No. 1, together with the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. shing Auxiliary, ington Star Phoic 30, ard Cu: W ANNON, THE CHAMPI in Washington and New York societ; home with her champion Irish wolfhound. and h: taken many blue ribbons. ON. Mrs. Glenn Stewart, prominent Yy phomg(;phed at her Eastern Shore he dog weighs 180 pounds, Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. iy A RECORD BAG OF GAME FROM THE WOODLANDS OF VIRGINIA. Swetman, B. 0. Yowell and L. brought back to Wa | | | { { { What the well dressed sportsman D. Johnson, who hunted for two days in the ueighborhood ington 150 rabbits and 75 quail. A. €. Yowell, J. 1 { Culpeper Left to right: HE HAS $4.000.000 WORTH OF JEWELS TO SELL. Prince Rachid Moutan Pasha, who arrived in New York ard the steamship Berlin with a treasure which is said to result from explorations near the Black thould wear. Ralph student_of Stetson University, De- land, Fla. wears getup. The 5 : : Hanson, a burned steamship Lenape, C. J. McCourt and Francis Tyler of New York, with the lifebelts carried when they left the burning vessel when she was beached in Delaware Ba Only one life was lost in the disaster. S STARTS THE DIRT FLYING IN NEW YORK. Ada May, musical comedy star, officiating at the ARMY PEAGE WORK IS LAUDED BY DAVIS New Secretary in St. Louis Talk Outlines Pursuits of Service. November importance of the War and United States Army 4 in an address here last ta of War Dwight F. is, who declared one of his most portant duties was to bring the ierican people into a more intimate contact with their Army. The ad- s was at a home-coming dinner in cace-time I'he new cabinet member explained the A¥my had led and would con- nue to 1 the way in great con- Ktructive developments of peace. Prepare for Peace. “It is not the bu Jepartment to pre ) prepare against war, artment for war, but he said. “The t declare war. war; the Army ends Davis vividly portrayed s “glorious record of devo- service in the things of He enumerated these activi- as follows Aning citizeps through annual encampihents, reviving in- way commerce, advancing telegraph sromoting chemical ustrial i ricultural purposes, ploitin m - fields, devel- ing a for peaceful ursuits nedical ex- men work. The t iing camps, he sald, vually add to the population of Unlted States some forty odd thou clean-minded, clear-thinking, patr disciplined and physically it young amen services for in tion and re Locate Forest Fires. *“The Air Serv covering and repor Patrol, by dis ng by radio the existence and location of forest fires, | worth | has saved milllons of dollars’ of timber from destruction. Aerial photography. he said, had 10 sooner been invented for milit: purposes than it was adapted to pho- tographing of sections of the United States and insular use of the Corp s and the Tnited States Geological Survey in the making of maps. In commerciel aviation, the tary pointed to the nirways by the landing fields. At the Army Air Servi on a radio beacon device for guiding mirplanes through darkness and fog. ————— - ¢ TERMS MUSSOLINI MAD. November 20 wspaper Vorw ng the c olini,” calls the s premier Wednesday by 4n insane dic- tablishment of he said, working BERLIN, Bocialist 1 editorial be helm_ Mus: the Italian oratorical mad fit tator.” ‘“The same Mussolini whose vanit drove him to Locarno to po 11y’s guarantor of Lluropean peace, . 1w, several weeks later, delivers war #nceches such as have n: iace the av of William II," editorial erts ption.- “Wil- the of the War | communication, ! s for the | development of | (®).—The | in an! eech of | “an | been heard | CopyTight by Underwood & Underwood. Deskwork Impairs Health of Cavalry Officers, Is Claim Deskwork doesn’t Cavalry officers. During inspections vear Maj. Gen of Cavalry, wa pressed by the evident phy condition of Cavalry officer: on duty with troops. In his annual | report, just made public, he s | ns of mental alertn ! officers of all grades, greatly with my daily S of the lower physiaal condition of officers on duties which necessi- tate a lentary existence.” Gen. Cralg said he believed “this subject is of such vital importance in its application to Cavalry officers ordered on detached service that 1 recommend that they be considered as on a mounted status at all times, and that provision be made for the transportation and care of their pri- | vate mounts when o detached.” In general, the chief of Cavalry declared that the whole question of | conserving the health and insuring | the physical fitness of detached of- ‘ | i agree with of the last Malin Crai s greatly i fis | ficers and men should be made the subject of a War Department stady. | ey 'SCHOOL DEDICATED IN BATTLE VILLAGE U. S. Envoy Speaks at Dedication ofSommepy Memorial to American Dead. ! By the Associated Press. | SOMMEPY, France, November 20— | This war.destroyed village, restored largely through the generosity of | American women, marked its grati- | tude with the dedication vesterday of a Franco-American memorial school, | honoring the memory of the Ameri-| cans of the 2nd Division and the French of Breton regiments who died | in the memorable battle September 26- | October 1, 1918. ! The Amerlcan Ambassador, Myron | | T. Herrick, speaking in behalf of the American donors, recalled the heroism of the co-operating French and Ameri- can armies and concluded | " “Old Sommepy, in the presence of | !déath we were not divided! New | Sommepy, we here renew our confl- ! dence in that mutual faith that sus | tained us in the hours of peril and desolation.” | | Gen. Gouraud, military governor of Paris, and many proniinent in civil and military life, as well as a_dele |'tion from the American Legion. tended the ceremouny. REALTY CONCERN FORMED Maj. Gen. Barnett President of De- | velopment Company. Maj. Gen. George Barnett, retired, commander of the United States | rine Corps_ during the World War, and several civilians and other offi:| cers have formed the Carolina Prop- erties, Inc., for the purpose of devel-| | Carolina. { | Gen. Barnett is president of the| company. Other officers and directors re: Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, Capt. Dudley W. Knox, Warren B. Davis, Frank Steward, Dr. F. L. | Corrigan, Maj. John Stu. G. G. Reiniger, Capt. J. George D. Jordah, » | take steam shovel when the first dirt was removed for the new subway at Thirty-eighth street and Eighth avenue. PRUSSIA MAY BLOCK AMERICAN ZING DEAL Two U. S. Concerns Negotiating for Mines That Control Ger- many’s Entire Ore Supply. By the Associated Pre BERLIN, November tion by the Prussian the tr: action by which W. A. Harri man & Co. of New York and the Ana- conda Copger Mining Co. of Montana over Yhe holdings of the Von Giesche Heirs Mining Co., was broadly hinted in the' course of a debate in the Diet_yesterday by Dr. Hoehpker-As- choff,” Prussian minister of finance. Under the transaction, the Ame interests would control the Giesche zinc deposits in Upper and Poland. The minister of finance charg under the terms of the agre entire German zinc supply would pass into American control, endanger- ing Germany’s industrial development, and he asserted that the Prussian government was in a position to fore- stall the conclusion of the transaction. The Prussian state bank recently 20.—Interven- government in |advanced the Von Giesche heirs 15,- | 1000,000 marks, but refused additional credit when the Von Giesche interests declined to conclude a contract with a German company under the control of Dr. Hoehpker-Aschoff as- In hourse circles it was reported that the American interests would probably retire from the negotiations. SAVES BROTHER'S LIFE FROM BURNING MACHINE H. M. Mendel of Washington Fights Flames, Although Himself Badly Hurt in Crash. By the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, November His brother trapped beneath an ove: turned and burning automobile and himself injured, H. M. Wendel, Wash- ington, D. C., fought the flames aund ed in dragging his brother to vesterday. L. B. Mendel is in al condition from a fractured skull and possible internal injuries. The two men were injured when their automobile skidded from the road near Swanton, ¥hio, and went into a 10-foot ditch, trapping H. B. Mendel beneath it. H. M. Mendel was thrown clear, but suffered nu merous deep cuts and severe bruises. He was unconscious for a short time and when revived discovered the au- tomobile burning. He fought the flames while attempting to reach his brother. Finaly he was able to drag him from beneath the steebing wheel to safety. “JURGEN” IS PRESENTED. Taylor’s S‘ymphonic Poem Wins Much Applause. NEW YORK, November 20 (#). The first presentation of Deems Tay- lor's symphonic _poem, aHeged obscenities, was given by the New York Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall yesterday, with Walter Damrosch conducting. A -large audience enthusiastically greeted the work and applauded the Young American composer, who oc- cupied a box. “Jurgen,” | taken from the book of the same name | oping real estate in western North!by James Branch Cabell, which was | Hill't tour will cover the entire globe suppressed for some time because of | Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Goes to See Corpse and Is Almost Persuaded Dead Body Is His Own| AND CRUISE PLANNED By the clated P LOUISVILLI . November 2 T tional adventure of the man who stopped a funeral to view what proved to be his own corpse was rivaled in real life when W. Edwin Russcll of Louisville went to Indianapolis yes- terday to view the body of “Edgar of St. Louis. The resemblance dead man, who had been fied as the Louisville man, w 50 startling for 4 moment that the lat- {SNYDER WILL SPEAK AT HARVEST FESTIVAL Marshal to Make Dedicatory Ad- dress at Ceremony for Curtain. | | E. C. Snyder, United States marshal, will deliver the address at the dedica- tlon of the new cyclorama curtain in connection with the harvest festival ter was almost persuaded he had died without knowing it W. Edwin I an antique notitied of his ath” by th at the instance of the Indianapolis po- lice, who had been advised of the “identity” of the body by an acquain of the Louisville man, was so ed that he decided to view the He believed be would find only a superficial resem n but foun the man who had comm! November 7 under th Russell was almost his exact cc part, even to a shortened left leg. FORMER DRY AGENT IS GIVEN 9 MONTHS Dixon Pleads Guilty to Attempting $1,000 Extortion From Cafe Man. aler police Special Dispatch to The Star. | | | startling shirt is of figured silk. Wide World Pho! OUTING OF SHRINERS cluded in Arrangements for the Week End. the leadership of P local Shriners wi 1311 Under Henry Lansburgh r headquarters, o'clock tomorrow afte a bus for Baltimore, where will be entertained at a special roast by Baltimore Shriners. by the Baltimore dele; Joined | the party will leave on the | chester, | Huber, returning to early Monday morning. are planned along the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, where special entertainments and refreshments will be provided. Capt. C. E. Flather of the first precinct station heads the committee on arrangements. He is being as- sisted by Rufus W. Pearson, presi of the patrol; Melvin E. Rice, capta of the drill team; Henry B. Srhmidt, director of the Oriental Band; J. Fred director of the floor team; Bob Heiner, business manager of the | BALTIMORE, November 20.—Buyr. military band; Louis W. Brown, bu ton C. Dixon, former Washington pro- | ness of the orchestr: manager 7 president of the Charles M. Havell, | in the auditorium, at Central High | hibition agent, was sentenced to nine | chanters; Harry C. Weirich, captain | Community Center, Wednesday, No- months in jail in the Federal Court | ©f the Legion Guard; vember 25, at 8 p.m., under the direc- tion of Marle Moore Forrest. Mr. Snyder Is chairman of the community center council of the District. One of the principal scenes in the harvest festival will be presented by | members of the dramatic assoctation |of Central High under the personal direction of Miss Sybil Baker. This | group will give the scene of the first | American Thankseiving. Members of the Chinese legation assisting in the presentation of ! are | direcced by Miss Caroline McKinley. Those taking part in this episode of the harvest festival are Evelyn Davis, Marianne Evans, Margaret Loughran, Judy Lyeth, Evelyn Prebble and Theo- dosia Shaler, assisted by Frances Ful- ler, Flora Lapham, Alice Callan, Doro- thy Parsons and Ruth Shoemaker. | “EVERLASTING PEACE,” { SLOGAN OF WORLD TOUR Head of Pacific Highway Associa- tion Will Start to Girdle Earth in January. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, November 20.—"Ev- erlasting peace” will be the slogan | which Samuel Hill, president of the Pacific Highway Assoclation, will take to every nation during a world tour for the world peace organiza- tion which he will start in January. {In his effort to “marshal the world | forces for peace” Mr. Hill will be backed by “a definite working plan and sufficient finances.” Details, | however, are kept secret. | “The world peace movement will be | launched on a scale greater than any other movement attempted,” a state- ment issued Jast night said. “Mr. and will be for the specific purpose of providing an Incentive for the mi- tions visited to commence thinkins in terms of everlasting peace. Dele- gates from each nation will attend the first _international peace conference, which will be held at King Solomon’s Temple, in Philadelphia, during six months of next year.” [!he Clinese tea picking scene, being | vesterday when he entered a plea of guilty to charges of attempting to | extort a bribe. | He was arrested by Prohibition Agent William Flinchum, who says | he overheard an attempt to extort | $1,000 from a cafe owner. Dixon ad- | mitted to Judge Soper that the plot was under his direction. had written ‘a letter supposedly re- | porting a complaint against Samuel Budlow, charging Budlow with the | sale of whisky at his cafe. This letter dry administrator. agent as a threat to force Budlow to pay the $1,000 bribe, Dixon admitted. A request for postponement of sen- tence until after Thanksgiving by Dixon was denied by Judge Soper. ASKS FARMER MEMBERS OF FEDERAL LOAN BOARD National Body of Agriculturists Makes Plea for Access to Ample Credit Facilities. ! By the Assoclated Press. MITCHELL, S. Dak., November 20. | —Appointment of farmers as members | of the Federal farm loan board to see “that operations of intermediate credit banks are in the interest of agriculture,” was recommended to the National Farmers’ Union today at the closing session of that organization’s convention. “Access to ample credit facilities is vital to the prosperity and progress of agriculture,” said the recommenda- tion which came from the banking committee. It recommended that State organizations should demand the enactment of co-operative banking laws and where such laws cannot and operation of farmer owned banks. | fight the proposed increase in West- ern raflrbad rates was started when the committee on freight rates named the State board of the Farmers Union In each State in the Western division as a “freight rate evidence ~ommittee, He said he | | was addressed to Edmund Budnitz, | The letter was used by the former | be_snacted, advised the organizmtion | Organization of the Middle West to | John J. P. president of the Caravan Club; Morris L. Hart, chairman of the automobile committee; Virgil M. Fookes, director of the Nut Band, and Rolind S. Robbins, representing the divan. ILLINOIS FAR Mullane, MER WINS CORN-HUSKING CONTEST| Elmer Williams Takes First Place | in Big Competition—Team- mate Runs_Second. By the Associated Press. BURGESS, Ill, November 20.—The corn belt's best corn huskers come from Illinois. Elmer Williams, 35, Toulon, Stark County, and Watler Olson of Knox County won first and second place | yesterday in a contest against seven huskers, champions of i and Minnesot using an ebraska, 2,504.3 pounds and Olson pounds in an hour and 20 minutes. Sudick, Nebraska, was third. 2,412.6 J. | “'While cheering delegations waded | Who had been third, was counted out. | through the ankle-deep mud in the contest fleld on the Cole farm here, the champion peeled the coverings from 2,590 pounds of corn, but deduc- tions were made for pounds of gleanings and 4% ounces of husks. Williams height of 5 fret 51 inches handicapped him in reaching some of the 12-foot stalks. On his 330-acre home farm in Toulon, he said, he aver- ages 100 bushels a day. Other contestants were: Iowa—Leo Rettler, Harper, and Fred Starck, Fort Dodge; Minnesota, T. I. Iver- son, Fergus Falls; Nebraska, Ronald Meyers, Freemont, and J. Sudik, and Indiana, William Cole, Gets Divorce From Actor. LOS ANGELBES, Calif., November 20 (A).—Mrs. Victorie E. Hale ended yvears of married life with Creigh- ton Hale, film actor, vesterday, when she obtained a divorce on the ground of desertion. The two children were given to the custody of Mrs. Hale. A property settlement was effected out of court. Sea. Forty New York policemen escorted the prince to hi Ph. D. Costs $8.000, Holder Gets $3,400 A disce financial pr professors in tion to the time in preparing for is contained in public by the Labo Placing the egree setor rom one of the I at $8,000, the report say indeed be wondered for h. years savings would have to beap- plied toward the payment of prep- aration for teach Figures obtained for the de- partment show that after about 18 years teaching experienc and equipped with the h zree for his profession, expect to attain in the small universities or colleges to a salary averaging only about $3,400; in the medium ed universities to a salary of about $3,600 or $3,700, and in the larger universities and colleges to a salary of $6,000 at the most “The figures cited show only the money cost and return,” the report added. “In addition, there are many sacrifices that must be made by the teacher and his family in order that the husband and father may advance in his profession.” M. VALERY IN PLACE 1ging comment lleges in nd spe) career { French Academy Elevates Three New Members to Seats Among “Forty Immortals.” | By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, November Anatole | France's chair was the only one really }comns(ed in the election today of three members of the French Academy, and | the elevation of Paul Valer | France's place among the 40 in: { tals was the day. M. Valery, brilliant critic and poet, to mor- most interesting of the old-fashioned , ¥an second to Leon Berard, former | peg and working barehanded, husked | Minister of public Instruction, on the | first two ballots, but took the lead when Victor Berard, a Senator and also former minister of instruction, M. Valery won the election on the fourth ballot with the necessary m Jority of 17, us there were only academicians at the sitting. M. Clemenceau, who has been elect- ed to the academy but never received, was among the absentees. The Duc de la Force and Louis Ber- | trand, the author, were elected on the first ballot to fill the vacancies caused by the death of the Duc d'Haussonville and Maurice Barres, respectively. | OPPOSE PROPOSED LAW. Opposition to legislation giving “full power to the President of the United States to reorganize governmental de- partments” s unanimously decided upon yesterday by the executive cou cil of the American Federation Labor. Opposition to peace-time conscrip- tion also was expressed, this method of building up the being favored only for “a defensive war.” of OF ANATOLE FRANCE | -| The tion’s forces | hotel. & A. Photos 10.0.G. WL VOTE Changes in Constitution in Shape for Presentation to Convention Today. registrar-gene: movement to_have tax on members iner from 20 to 35 cents. All addition revenue obtained from this s would be given to the fund whic |is used in sting widows of Con | federate veterans in Northegn an Eastern sections Another amendment Mrs. Woodli | seeks to ha'm adopted would do; | the price o rtificates of memt | ship, which | Mrs. 3.3 treasurer-ges only memb lues for the cur mitted to partici ventions. | Mrs. T. T prepared tod financial aid in t Woodrew Wils 12 scholarship ment of the and $5,000 scholarship at But for th adhered to pe he ional cor lanta w: plea fo e comy of the und of §12,000 fc in the Qepart i University 1] in 1860, Stephen A Douglas would have been nominate | for the presidency by his par “an | the catastrophe of 1860 in the wa ( between the States would have bee averted,” Dr. Gordon Hulbutt of 11 Springs declared in his address hert | last night. i Dr. Hulbutt said slavery was | the malin i e, but was the excuse ! occasion for “Tari | unjust taxation came to the | the real issues,” he decl greatest leaders of the antl-slavery men.” | The speaker chara | between the State a e of | blg brother jumping on a little brothe because he would not dance to the b= brother's fiddling.” War Department today “crucifying the one man who d to speak his mind because he dee: it his duty.” asserted Col. Jefterson Davis of San Diego, last night. Col. Da adviser of the militar board of aeronautlcs of the Amerfear | Army during the World War, descril | ed Col. William Mitchell, central f | ure in the aireraft contros | suth we cterized the w a fearless American patriot | Pioneer Memorial Unveiled VICTORIA, British vember 20 memorial cairn erecte: to the memory of eighteenth c ry | navigators was unveiled at Gonzale | Helghts yesterday. The ceremonies were presided over by Robert k. ley. direct descendant of | Charles William Barkley, whe command of the British trading shij | Imperial Eagle, sailed up Juan d. Fuca Strait and was the first person to see the possibilities of the inland waters. Columbia, i