Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1925, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON, D § i i B P A 'WORD TO THE FARMERS OF THE NATION. before the microphone in the auditorium of a Ch:i addressed the deleza to the American Farm E READING THE PRE the House of R ath Congress his me-sage, “RED™ CALLS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Considering that his visit in Wathington would not he complete urless he met President Coolidge, “Red” Grange, foot hall sensation of the called at the White House yesterday morning. He was accompanied by Senator McKinley of Hlinos Copyright by Harris & Ewi Coolidz when | ident hotel VICE PRESIDENT BUYS HIS CHRISTMAS SEALS. Frost, Health Crusader, called at the € Presi Miss pitol yesterday and supplied ut Dawes with his allotment of seals, Profits from the Copsright by Harris zabeth entatives, readirg the annual m The President is following the old cu not reading it to the Senators r 20 & Ewine nding Photos. toward the fight against wherculosis, ————— e FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF LORADO MINE DISASTE tunnel of the Fairview mine, near Boulder, after 19 workers b THOUSANDS :D CHAMP FIDDLER. M fiddler of Maine. leaving his home town of Norway for Detroit to play Wide World Photo S THE “GALLOPING GHOST™ WHO FAILED TO GALLOP VERY MUCH. sitting on the sidelines in vesterday's game with the Washington team. press the cash customers at American League Park. HOOVER TOADDRESS PROPOSES JEWISH er from tire main Fumes overcame several of iy P& AL Photos lie Dunham. charapion “Red” Grange (second from right The redhead’s activities failed to im. v P. & A. P 1 heen entembed. the rescuers, and the work was carried on unde; Coprright for Henry Ford. tos, SEE DOUBLED NEED “GRAND OLD MAN® INTRANSPORTATION. GF CANADA DIES great difficultics. Copsright Hoover and Copeland Tell of | J. R. Booth, Dominion Lumber | Increasing Demands at Wa- terways Congress. \ plctura of a nation of 2 000 persons, gathered in the sreat urban centers, with a fully developed trinity of road, rail and river transportation, was drawn by speakers at the open- fng session of the twenty-first an- nual meeting of the National Rive an Harbors Congress at the New Willard Hotel today The United States stands o1 threshold of a new industrial which will outdo the last. Seciet of Commerce Hoover declared ator Roval S. Copeland of New sald the entire prosperity of the > tion depends on it fransporiation He took a fling at the «dministration for not stepping in 1o #djust the co atrike by enjoining both sides that “they musi give us coal 1o serve our penple.” Need of More Facilities. the at the greal rail centers alveady fis apparent, Mr. Hoov sald. addingk that within the next vears facilities must he provided to move at least double the commodities that ave now moved. “We must either build more trunk line railway or we MUSL improve our waterway 10 tuke over the burden of transporta tion.” he said, pointinz out that e perfence. has proven the relative cheapness of water transportation over rall Mr Hoover told the congress that the entire transportation system must be censidered a harminous whole instead of disconnected Nnks in a sys tem whose ends do not tie up with industrial enterprises or agricultural communities. He likened the pres. ant development of the Mississippi River to a trunk line railroad. Mr. Hoover's declaration that “we must maintain a regular service of ocean shipping under the American flag” met with hearty applause. added thai commerce of this Nation must he protected by the flag. w Double Population. Senator Copeland said New York City will double its population in 40 ve Four thousand miles of rall- way cars are needed to feed the people of New York every vear, he said Other speakers at the opening s sion included Gustav Weidel, commer- clal counselor of the Swegdish lega- tion, who described ' the development of Sweden's waterway Comdr. John Rodgers, hero of the PN-9 No. 1 flight to Hawali; Senator Charles S. Deneen of Minois and W. C. Cowling of De- troit, traffic manager of the Ford Motor Co. A symposium on the work of water- way associations was held this after- noon. Lieut. Comdr. R. E. Byrd, com- mander of the MacMillan Arctic flight, will address the meeting late afternoon. The annual banquet of the “ongress will be held tonight at the Wiltard, and the convention will eloge with twin sessions tomorrow. Lieut. Comdr. ‘C. E. Rosendahl, U. 8. N, Cor.gestion He | this | King. Expires in Ottawa at Age of 98. WA Ontario, < lumber king, Ottawa’s grand old man. J. K. Booth, died peacefully at home ir Ott vesterday at the age of %5 The funeral tomorrow will trended by representatives of the the Senate. the city and the governor general aranddaughter, Eric of Denm: is Denmark. December 4 he crnnie I Booth in 1857 hegan his by renting a little the banks of the Irom this it has eased In size, until to- i the largest of mil on | Ottawa Rive: | radually day it stand its kind in the wor He wa a ile constricied ihe and Par ound Rzilways, but in 1904 dispos < holdings for $14,000.000 “Old J was notoa politician in 1911, opposed to the proposed Taft Fielding reciprocity pact, he addressed a large gathering of his employes from the top of a woodpile lumber yard. To speeches the ( I no_small measure:its defes When the present Kirg visited Canada he was gu railways Cana Atlantic these woodpile George \ t of the % in the Booth) wernment attributed in | lumber men on a crib of square lum- | | ber on its joutney through the lumber sluices and he served to his majesty a real shanty dinner of pork and heans | - He was director of the Grand Trunl Paclfic Railway. president of the Do | ! minfon Nickel and Cepper director of the Canada Cement Co. |, Desrees were given to 17 candidates ! for master of arts, according to the annual report of the ( tution for the Deaf, today made institution. known Gallaudet Col- lege, 1 tion from the District Canada and 34 State! were under instruction 51 student: n the primary The report pointed out that dormi tory. fpcilities for students will have ito be increased to accommodate the steady growth in attendance, and con- building. A survey of schools for the deaf, con- ducted ,by the National Research Coupiell,” was carried on through the school year and produced valuable material in regard to speech and iof deaf puplis. ‘will describe 11 Tast trip of the difizi- hle Shenando: ) at sige meeting to- morrow morning. of Columbia, — i GALLAUDET DEGREES WON slumbia Insti- | public | | with the union by “glving aid and d2ushter. In the advanced department of the | students were under instruc. | | and grammar department, known as | Kendall School, of whom 48 were ad- | mitted as beneficiaries of the District. | tained a request for an adminisfration ' speech reading and general education | REPR Bei A FLOWER SHOW. Fr MINERS ORDER COAL PROBE IN SOUTHWEST ~ Whom He Adopte : . .| By the Associated Press Operators. Charged With Giving| pDIXON, L. December 9.—'Uncle’ . . o Jimmy Pankhurst, 85 years old, and Aid to Other Districts | Wealthy eccentric farmer, who last o " April lost his wife, yesterday gave During Strike. Up a dream of spending his declining o vears surrounded by the loving care iof a daughter. By the Associated Press | Nine years ago “Uncie Jimmy" and PITTSRURGH. Kans., December 9. ! m? “ifv-d“‘h‘;' AW "E"”"'"hinf‘ oon R e conth. | them and who were disappointed in —Charges that members of the South-| pover having had a daughter of their western Interstate Coal Operators’ As- | own. advertised in a Chicago news. fon are violating their contract |paper for a girl willing to be their | To the girl who would give them a T diStricts” | qaughter’s - affection “Uncle Jimmy" ion | offered to bequeath $10,000 in his will. Mary Smith of Chicago first answered, { but found life in the country too quiet comfort to operators in ot will be investizated by a commis appointed by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers. The commission, which will begin | jamin Golder, from their district, when the Sixty-ninth session opened. ‘ealthy Farmer Outlives Daughter . BUSINESS LEADERS CATHEDRAL HERE ends and relatives in Philadelphia did not forget the new Congressman, He received enough blooms to stock a flower store. Copyright by Harris & Ewing. a 'RICH WOMAN GIVES d, Promising Legacy| HOME T0 MACRI GIRL Then came Mary Brack 5 years old. a Hungarian immigrant and without kin in this country. The Pank- | hursts accepted her and for nine ! | vears lavished Affection on the quiet. unassuming igl who aspired to noth: | | Ing " except the country life of her benefactors. { Ry the Ascoriated Preas. Last April Mr; Pankhurst died in| 1, ITCHFTELD, Conn., December 9. the arms of her ydopted daughter and Unele Jimmy" envisioned himeelf | —-Acquitted at her second trial for John Bagnano, father of her spending his last days in her love | killing and |(».v;(|~p_ l‘l} {rw‘v days :\u‘n the girl|child, Miss Olympla Macri, 20, a o e e an Gperation to save | ginger, who had operatic ambitions, her life proved unavailing. | She died Monday. within a few yvears | has been taken in charge by a wealthy JSlayer of Her Child's Father Re- ceives Haven After Acquittal of Murder. |ed the reward from the estate. | girl will be buried today | Fimmy" The | e male | her baby a home. refuses to discuss his future. | Mrs. Joseph Whitney, widow of a ,and gave up the place. work within a week or 10 days, will; inquire into conditions generally in SEEKS NEW BEEF TYPE. the Southwest with a view to de-| ink: the advisablility of calli; e A Fitsgibbons, joint board | Stockman Will Cross Hereford Cat- tle With Buffaloes. member of union district 14, said, in | making the announcement. Three districts, comprising the States | KANSAS CITY. Mo., December 9 of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Ar- 5 4 kansas and Texas, are involved, he | /?—Develonment of a new type of sald. beef animal by crossing buffalo with Many union miners in Oklahoma are | Hereford cattle will be attempted by now on strike. Milton ' Thompson of Lees Summit, e Mo., near here. Miss Henrletta Leslie of Blackwood, | Fifty-three head J.. has been a regular church at- |chased from the tendanf for vears. Only recently | Ranch. Pierre, S. she retired as a publie school teacher Mr. Thompson's’ after 50 years of continuous service. — ment. of buffaio, Scotty pur- rm for the experi- Phillipe | k., have arrivedat | — | New York judge, and a New Haven PEACE PRIZE TALE DENIED | society matron, became interested in ]lhe girl during’ the first trial in New e | Haven after ““h shooting, which oc- | curred in the lobby of a New Haven Rumor Chamberlain and Briand | theater February 36, At that time Will Get Award Urfounded. | Mrs. Whitney offered to give the girl OSLO, Norway, December § (P~} 2nd her baby: a home if she were ac- The chairman of the Storthing's ! quitted, but the jury disagreed May 25 and Miss Macri has spent the in- committee on the award of the Nobel | tervening months in county jails and peace prize said yesterday that the report from Geneva that both Sir courtrooms. Before she killed Bagnano, a profes- Austen Chamberlain, British foreign secretary, and Premier Briand of sional singer, Miss Macri had taken part in many New Haven entertain- France would be given the peace prize | ments, both professional and amateur, in 1526 was an unfounded rumor. He [and had looked forward to study sail_no decision on the award could | abrgad. In..both..trials she claimed { he reached until after February 1, tha gnano had refused to marry | 1926, {of the time when she would have reap- | woman, ‘who has provided her and | | l i | | i Secretary to Speak Before Mass Meeting Protesting Government Interference. With Secretary Hoover as a speaker A two-day mass meeting of ind leaders—the first gathering of type—will convene here tomorrow to protest against “governmert in busi- ness.” More than 100 types of com mercial activity will he The meetings will he at the Washing- ton Hotel. The meetin ference on C is the outgrowth of sion held here several weeks ago. when representatives of g0 leading industries appoinied a steering com mittee. The report of this committee will be presented tomorrow. It is ex- pected to contain suggestions for a course to be pursued by designated as the con- ment in Industr preliminary ses: ty. municipal and Federal agencies out of the field of purely commercial en- terprise. The conference will be centered in the contention that the various units of Government have no right to nuse money derived from taxes ‘levied against commercial concerns to finance operations launched under the | litical supervision for competition with those concerns. Statements by President Coolidge in his recent address hefore the New York Chamber of Commerce were being quoted today as indicating the present necessity for halting the in- trusion by Government agencies, The steering committee is composed of Homer L. Ferguson, Newport News, Va., former president of the hamber of Commerce of the United tates and president Newport News Ship Bullding . (o.: F. *Highlands Burns, Baltimore, president Maryland | Casualty Co. and president Interna tional Association of Casualty and Surety Underwriters; J. E. Edgerton. shville, president of the National Assoclation of Manufacturers president Lebanon Woolen Mills, and Gen. R. C. Marshall, jr., general man- ager Associated General Contractors of America, who is chairman of the committee. Ordered to Tientsin. Maj. Henry B. Lewis, adjutant gen eral's department, has been relieved from duty at the West Point Mili- tary Academy and ordered to Tientsin for duty with United States forces in China. Maj. Walter C. Gullion, ad- jutant general's department, at Tien- tsin, has been ordered to this city for duty at the War Department. she killed him in self-defense. The vote of the first jury was 11 to 1 for acquittal. Mrs. Whitney was a frequent vis itor at the New Haven jail and a comstant attendant at_court -sessions in_both trials. ghe was in the court- roow vesterday ¥hen the jury report- uer or to =upport thelr baby, and that ed Miss Maeri not guilty. and | Representative Bloom's Idea Voiced at Closing of Celebration. A proposal that the Jews ica erect # great national « Washington was made last | Representative Sol Bloom of New Yo at a banquet which conc of ‘celebrations commer: seventieth annivers f ington Hebrew Congre banquet was held at the \Wast Hotel Mr. Rloom's sugzestion, course of an after-dinner indorsed by Representative | Dickstein ‘of * New . speaker. and was received acclaim by the more than speech, Promises Support the éonfer- | ence in the effort to drive State, coun- | Mr. Bloom promised 1 {a maovement in every and he announced his willingnes contribute financially to a fun earrying out the proposal. He n out that other large denomi are erecting fmposing religious fices of a_national character in C‘apital and expressed th n the the Jews should see that their fai also is represented in this manner. Ii suggested that the cathedral have windows, donated by Jews of the States. Rev. Abba Hilel Silver of Cleveland, Ohio, was the principal speaker. He made a'stirring plea for Jews to hold fast to their traditions and faith and gave a vivid description of the syna gogue and what it means to the Jew He told of the love of the Jew for liberty In religion and thought aw1 of the troubles into which he has been plunged because of this love Levi David. chairman of the com- mittee on arrangements. introducit the toastmaster. Rabbi Abram Simon. with the observation that the celehra tion not only was in commenioration of the seventieth anniversary of the } congregation, but of the twenty- ond . anniversary of Rabbi Simon's !service. ) David outlined the growth of the congregation under Dr Simon's leadership and told of t | deep affection which the members af the congregation hold for him Reviews Accomplishments. Charles A. Goldsmith, president | the congregation, reviewed the accom | plishments- of the church during the | past year and read a number of tele grams from various parts of the coun |try felicitating the congregation on its anniversary. The banquet was. opened with in- |- vocation by Rev. Harry L. Kronman and was closed with bencdiction by | Rabbi Lous J. Schwefel Dancing concluded the program of the evening. Music was provided by | Milton* Hopfenmaier. Leaves Fort Myer. Second Lieut. Williams N. Gilmore, Field Artillery, at_Fort Myer. has been ordered to San Francisco. suppe possible, ohi