Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1925, Page 1

_— ——— i > | WEATHER. (U.S. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain or snow tonight and tomor- row; not much change in tempera ture: lowest temperature tonight about 3 degrees, Temperatur Highest, 3§ at 2 p.m. yvesterday; lowest at 5 am. today. ~Full report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 29.813. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Star. 1925 — Yesterday’s Circulation, 101,529 TWO CENTS. LAFOLLETTE GIVES G. 0. P. WARNING HE WON'T‘RENOUNCE Named to Committees as Re- publican, He Says He Ad- heres to His Platform. WILL FOLLOW POLICIES HIS FATHER LAID DOWN Entered as second class matter 2, post office. Washington, D. C. BRIAND SIRMEGY EUROPE’S ARMIES 1,500,000 LESS TODAY THAN BEFORE WORLD WAR | Arms in Good Faith, With Locarno Treaty []VER HSGM_ B"_I_ to Reduce Forces Still More. No. WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 EVENTY PAGES. SOVIET, AT CRISIS, MEETS TO SETTLE - FUTURE PRINCIPLES Two Branches of Party to Clash on Modified Form of Capitalism. D @, (UP) Means Asgociated Press. many have occasioned the recent re- ductions in the Belgian, Czech and Dutch armies, and even the French home army. If socialist Russia should come to terms with the rest of Eu- rope, it is confidently foreseen that similar reductions In eastern Euro- pean armies would follow. | The proportion of varlous armies to the total military rength of Lu "H"l'(‘ men are under arms now than | rope today is as follows: France, 24 ‘hefnx'l‘ the war is branded false. Der cent; Russia, 21 per cent; Great | There are actually 1,500,000 fewer sol- | Brl:al?; '"5 iper vtnl:{i’r’-lma,r;dr; 5; :;:lr_ jlers n Europe today than there were Piit. and Biil ¢ wec cent Phsiwe %y abnormally rge army doubtless is As & result of the spirit of Locarno | due to the prolonged Moroccan war. | | s z Z | ind the development of the League of [ The pre-war ranking of military pow. | i ations. additional reductions are ex |ers was as follows: Russia, 2 per | Money State Regarded as Certain BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. | BY Cable to The Star and Chi G December 15.—Europe lready has begun to disarm te- able figures, which the correspond- | | ent compiled here with technical aid, prove this fact conclusively. The oft-repeated statement that | T | Cabinet to Appeal Direct to! Chamber for Open Vote on Program. i STEADY DRIFT IS SEEN TOWARD OLDER SYSTEM LOUCHEUR RESIGNATION BELIEVED CALLED FOR |«ent, and Sy Party Leaders Gather to Study Letter, But Assignments Are Expected to Stand. Finance Committee Reaffirms Re- jection of Measure by Wide Margin Today | ] i & | | Senator Robert M. of Wisconsin, in a { Senator Watson, chairman of the Re publican committee on committees Edm-]ar-d his intention of adhering to | the progressive principles and polictes of government for which his father the late Senator La Follette, stood | : Senator La Follette said that he had La Follette, letter today The heen Decembe minis crisis has at least tempo the government decid has chosen as the best | Deputies for an open vote on Fi with Ger- 2, Column 8) | fiscal measures, | | mber’s pected in the near future, particularly | cent; France, 20 per cent;-Germany, ! i =g in France, Helgium and the Scandi- | 19 per cent. Austro Hungary, 10 per in Four Years if Tide Is navian countries. Probably before the | cent; Great Britain, 10 per cent: Italy, | Josed disarmament conference con. | & per cent, and Japan. 6 per cent. | Not Stemmed. < Kurope will have emptied many The new figures which the writer | Ly s employs were derived partly from the | i i vopean armies have diminished, armament handbooks of the League | BY JUNIUS B. WOOD. l-vu .\uwliv-an’ :mdh .\m.-;m alnnie!; \"4 lons and mart); n-nn; C\td by | BY Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News | have increased. as have the colonial | curate sources ey are sa i SCOW. cel 5.—What Is forces of Kuropean powers. The chief | experts to be the most rellable ever| MOSCOW. December 15. _"'“,'r rarily delayed " | reletions Blios The v o Mave i | ompiled. perhaps the most Important con ‘ Ing today to appeal to the Chamber oL | Garmany and Russia The writer ence of the Russian Communist party nce | The improved relations (Continued on Page since the revolution began at the Kremlin today. Two schools of thought in the party | have reached the stage where the Minister loucheur’s which were rejected by the ¢ e vesterday. tinancial committe The committee vute of yrojects of Fir today confirmed its Vesterday rejecting the fiscal ince Minister Loucheur. There as only one dissenting vot yl']‘\:"\\\ te came after M. Loucheur ad appeared before the committee, sromised that the government intend: i to work in closer co-operation with KELLOGG RENEWS - ISOLATION PLEDGE REPORTBI | rapidly into a state of capitalism. | The eight since the re\'nlu»i i tion began have been historically divid- | {{ | conterence must decide whether the | prsent political and conomic organt- {zatfon of Ru ally |ll‘llgrPflNan| | steadly o m, or 15 diving | GMOSIL sla is rd social been elected as a Republican by the | voters of Wisconsin, and that he j would accept the committee assign jments which the committee on com- | mittees had determined to give him ar | ed into four of destruction and four ! 14 OPPORTUNITIE 1t. and asked for more I e \!Idi\‘i\v‘ Ind the motion voted 3 ywoilU. S. Will Aid Europe, But he financ iinister reaffirmed that H . The fnance it e e inten-| Wl Not Join Her, Sec- to_balance the ! as sooni N . tion of the committee in re- ! retary says. e is considered in entire cabinet if | finance refuses to| its v circles of M sffirming political resignation retirement of the the minister of step down alone. New Support Asked. By the Ascociated Prese N December of co-operating with European power for all legitimate purposes, but of induce (Aavoiding European palitics. This was the kevnote of an address by Secre i!fi of State Kellogg at a dinner given in his honor last night by the Council on Foreign Relations. Secretary Kellogg outlined polici | of his department and defended it 44 | against recent criticism, especially he ' with regard to alleged aloofness in foreign affai foreign debts and the exclusion from the United | States of foreigners, “‘whether prince or peasant.” who seek to preach radi- al doctrine: Characterizing the security confer- ence at Locarno as “Europe’s sincere effort to free itself from the old sys- tem of balance of power supported Sy military alliances,” he said: “It has been the settled policy of the United States not to interfere in purely European questions, certainly not unless invited, and there was no | reason to invite the United States to !attend the Locarno conference. * * * Will Co-operate Fully. “We shall go to the very limit of easonable co-operation for all legitl- re being made ‘to members belonging who refrained . to support the Efforts those committee to the Right parties from voting vesterd: government now While the government struggles with the financial situation the franc continues to fall on the excha n r ket. The dollar was quoted and the pound Tore the ofl this morning Little fear is entertained of an s solute dictatorship vet, except by parties of the Left. Official circles feel that should the government re- ign, President Doumergue will call | upon Premier Briand to form a con- 1 ministry representing -all | parties except the Socialists and Com- | munists for one final effort to put the fiscal bills designed to save the franci through Parliament in a constjtutional | manner. Should this fail, then, and only then would there be a Tesort to stern mea ures. rentra Two Measures Rejected. Two of M. Loucheur’s most impor- | tant measures for stabilization ot e re ek e Wwauid agree to | mate purposes, but we will not com- any modification that appeared cap-{mit ourselves to the European system able of improving his bill. The com-| . alliances and counter-alliances to ttee took him at his word and sent | 278 2 e O e Will ereating a sink.|maintain the balance of power upon ing fund commission and the one call- | that continent.” 3 ing for the imposition of new taxes.. As for the foreign debt policy, Mr. With the bills went an intimation that | Kellogg said it is out of the question they were not suited to the require- |t contemplate an outright gift of bil- ments of the moment. ! lions of dollars. The debt settlements, The rebuke caused a sensation in|he said, have been approached in a the lobbies of Parliament, where there | gpirit of utter fairness. were all sorts of rumors of the resig- He expressed himself forcibly in fa- nation of M. Loucheur and even the|vor of the policy of excluding allen entire government. radicals. He declined to recognize that o - o the titutional guarantee of free ASKS LOUCHEUR RESIGN. speech “applies to aliens who desire to —— come over here to teach their per- nd Plea Is Rejected by Fi nicious doctrines of communism, rev- olution, sabotage and destruction of However. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN ance orderly government. He added that the policy of exclu- sion of undesirable aliens would be en- forced without regard to the station of life of the persons affected. Infor- “mation on which foreigners are ex- cluded is confidential and will not be made public. Although Secretary Kellogg did not mention any specific cases, it was in- forred that he had in mind the exclu- sion_of Countess Karolyi and the Brit- ish Communist member of Parliament, Saklatvala. Speech Carefully Worded. Mr. Kellogg spoke from a carefully prepared manuscript, with every evi- ! dence of consciousness that his words would be heard around the world. It | was disclosed that the address was re- | zarded as of such importance that the section dealing with foreign debts and that touc itude toward European conferences, Ithough it contained no direct refer. ence to the Geneva disarmament ! movement, had been cabled in full by |the State Department to American | diplomatic missions in Europe. |"The *chief distinction” of American | policyand that least understood abroad, the Secretary said, was “the fixed de. | termination to avold participation in | purely European political matters.” |7 “Not since 1798 has the United | States been a party to any military al- {liance,” he said. “We shall go to the mit of reasonable co-operation i s, but we will com- mit ourselves to the European system jot alliances and counter-illiances to | maintain the balance of power upon that continent. * * * It is doubtful |if they have ever contributed to the maintenance of peace. DENVER, ¢ December 15— Discussing China, the Secretary de- The North Central Rocky Mountain | clared the.time had pasred “when na- digging itself from beneath a blanket STIMent S5 P G L PSELE of snow that varied in depth from (g nointed out that one of the difficul- 5 to 18 inches. ties with which foreign countries have Train schedules were almost normal | to deal in China is “the instability of again, and Uncle Sam’s air mail was | (Confinued on Page 2, Column 2. winging its way across the plains. After being delaved at Cheyenne, Wryo., a storm center, for 26 hours, the first plane hopped off for the East at 12:50 o'clock this morning. | Live stock apparently suffered little | from the storm, and only one casualty was reported, although persons had narrow escapes death by freezing o Daily News The stormy By Cable to The Star and Chi PARIS, December cabinet council, wh segan at 9:30 o'clock this morning th the object of examining the situation created in the ministry L the refi 1 of the finance committee to indorse M. Lou- cheur’s financial plans, ended at 30, with M. Briand unable to induce Lou cheur to resign The finance minister insisted upon having another conference with mem bers of the committee who were sum- moned in haste to meet Loucheur at 7 o'clock this evening. d impression created through- out country by the financial projects. which sure considered as in- adequate to save France from bank- ruptey. will compel Loucheur to re- sign shortly M. Briand intends to remain in of- | fice as long as possible. and plans to offer the ministry to who held this office a few da Herriot cabinet tCopyright, 1025, by Chicago Daily News Co.) WEST IS BENEATH BLANKET OF SNOW Great Lakes Shipping—Fall Is Five to Eighteen Inches. By the Associated ¥ score of | from ! from 4k 26 a legal holiday 15.—The | United States is committed to a policy | al and loans | ing upon the American at- | Advices Set Trade Pacts . With Turks as Condition of Decision. | By the Associated Press GENEVA, SWitzerland, 3 After an hour's sec | the League of Nations a report was ated that bheen unanimou: | provisional Brussels line as the defi | nite frontier of Mosul, thus awarding | the greater part of the disputed terri- | |tory to the British mandate state of | Irak. | As conditions, the reported decision | directed that economic treaties favor- | able to Turkey be negotiated, and that Great Britain formally engage to ex- tend her mandate over Irak for vears. | Report Not Confirmed. There was no official confirmation of | the report. However, it was accepted | as a fact in some circles, openly declared that the counell lagic- | December et session of ouncil today it had tional report by Gen. Laidoner, the | league’s investigating agent. i This report, issued today, presents a terrible picture of massacres of Chris- tians by the Turke. The report was prepared in Mosul by three assistants and Esthonian nationalities. The re- committed by officers and soldiers of the 62d Turkish Infantry. ! The report estimates that 3,000 | Catholic Chaldeans have been deport- ed from the Mosul-Turkish frontier. | It accuses the Turks of violating and slaying Christian women. All Chris- tians were deported from the village of Merga, north of the provincial line, | which was fixed at the Brussels con- | ference pending definite demarcation of the frontier. Five Buried Alive. Five aged women who were unable to keep up with the marching col- umns are declared to have been | buried alive under piles of ston and | left to their fate. According to Chris- | tians who escaped, those remaining in the Turkish concentration camps e not supplied with food by their | captors and are forced to live on acorns. At Jaijo alone, the report says, 40 men were shot down in cold blood. During marches from other villages the deportees were given no food for 10 dayvs, and those falling by the wayside ‘were immediately killed by the soldiers, who used their hayonets | | and rifle butts. SENATORS MAY ASK " DETAILS ON MERGER| D. C. Committee Expected to Auki Information. The Senate District committee, it was indicated today, may request the heads of the two local street railwa: systems for more detailed informa- tion after the Christmas recess as to what progress has been made towara a voluntary consolidation since the last Congress enacted the law author- izing a_voluntary merger. The Senate committee received yes- terday from the Public Utilities Com- mission copies of the letters .which the two companies recently sent the commission, and in which they stated that any prediction as to the possi- ble merger would be premature this time. Senator Capper. chairman of the District committee, indicated today that members of the committee prob. ably would want more data as to just what the present situation is respect. ing the merger. No steps are likely to be taken, however, to get this in- formation until after Christmas. Commissioners Seek . Legal Holidtiy In District Dec. 26 at Bank’s Request | departments would be closed on De- port charges that the massacres were | : would be toward a possible Street Railway Heads for i | of reconstruction. Now, looking for fward from the present situa | two schools are divided as t at the end of the next four {country will be socialistic | istic. whether ars the capital i Principles Seen Lost. n of the congress the present program Upon the dec | depends whethe; { of steadily reviving industry ! proving economic conditions will be modified. To those not fired with the ardor of communism the issue seems | merely a question of dictionary defini ¢ decided to fix the ! tion, but to the Communists the ques- | | tion' is whether principles sacred to them have been abandoned for the ways of Mammon. The seriousness of the situation has been indicated in the debates of the Moscow district Communist party just clpsed, where ued for either side in impasioned oratory. as Bukharin, considered the Communist tactician, led the of the nt trend, declar- ing that if the present economic or zanization really were capitalistic he ‘would leave the party and join third revolution.” Those opposing the present trend urge that the profits of industry, where it was ' which now go to the government and | *" thus only indirectly to the workers, ! ally had been driven to it through the e returned directly to the workers. | had Impossibility of handing over Mosul | The trend today. they say. indicates "neighborhood had not been aroused. to Turkey in consequence of an addi- | Russia will be completely a capitalis- | Patrolman John J. Meehan, who had tic state four years hence. Gradual Change Seen. Apparently, after many years of un- irelenting war on all capitalism as an evil, the party now finds there are sev- of Gen. Laidoner, of Spanish, Italian jeral kinds of capitalism, some good other in the Kidney. iand some bad. Action of the Moscow district con- | vention reached outsiders only through edited reports of speeches pub- lished several days later. The Na- tional Party Congress will be even more exclusive, with few party mem- bers except delegates admitted and correspondents of newspapers of *‘capi- talistic countries” naturally excluded. (Copyright. 1925, by Chicago Daily News Co.) Tchitcherin Assails Pact. PAIRS, December 15 (#).—Foreign Minister Tchitcherin of Soviet Rus- sla, who is visiting France, regards | the Locarno security pact as “prepa- | ration for a crusade against the So- viet republic,” he told the press today. Asked what the Soviet's attitude Locarno pact for the eastern, the foreign min ister replied that he did not know what that might mean. However, the | Moscow government was ready to en- ter into agreements with each of the | Baltic states individually. Charges Propaganda. NEW YORK, December 15 (#).—John Barrett, former United States minis- ter to the Argentine and other. South American countries, addressing the opening sessien of the Pan-American | Commercial Congress today, said th Russfan bolsheviki are broadcasting propaganda throughout South Ameri- agalnst the United States. 0. OFFICIAL HELD ASDRUNKEN DRIVER iChief Plumbing Inspector Ar- | rested After Accident in Virginia. Charged with driving an automo- | bile while under the influence of {liquor, A. R. McGonegal, chief { plumbing inspector of the District of | Columbia, was haled before Police | Magistrate Harry R. Thomas in Clar- | endon today and held under $500 bail { for trial by jur; McGonegal, according to the Vir | ginia authorities, ran amuck in an { official District car at the intersec. | tion of Hume avenue and the Lee { nighway, in Rosslyn, shortly before 5 o'clock vesterday afternoon. When the damage was counted, policemen | testified, the District car was a wreck and the rear end of a Washington- Virginia Railway bus had been smashed. Policeman James D. East placed Mc- Gonegal under arrest, and took him to | the Arlington County Jail. |charge of operating ‘an_automobile while under the influence of liquor was | entered, and McGonegal was locked up for the night, officials declaring he was A joint resolution declaring Decem- | semi-weekly board meeting. The bank- | too intoxicated to permit them releas. | in the District | ers pointed out that the Government |ing him pending trial. Half a pint of whisky, they said, was found in his Tee was forming on the Great| was drafted by the Board of District | copber 26 and that the day falling | pocket. ndicapping shipping, which | Commissioners today and will be will bhe discontinued until| transmitted to Congress with a re- Spring. Until then no further storm | quest for its introduction and adop- nings _will be issued by the| tion. Weather Bureau. Heavy seas drove| The resolution®was framed at the everal craft into harbor shelters. [ request of a delegation representing — the District Bankers' Assoclation, Radio Programs—Page 58. which conferred with the Commlis. sioners prior to the convening of the A on Saturday also was a_half-holiday for the banks and that they felt that there was little need for the banks to remain open. In the delegation were Robert V. Fleming, president of the Riggs Na- tional Bank, and Corcoran Thom, vice president of the American Secur- ity & Trust Co. District Attorney William C. Gloth | appeaered for the state at the hearing bhefore Magistrate Thomas today. Wil- liam H. Waple, driver of the bus, told the court that bis car had been dam- aged to the extent of about $400. Mc- Gonegal waived the preliminary hear- ing, and he was held under bond for trial at the next term of court. " 1. the | and im-| There the ' BATTLING” SIKI MURDERED i Fighter, Figure in Many Es- ! capades, Killed in New York Street. | By the Associated Press ! NEW YORK. December 15— Bat- tling” Siki, the Senegalese pugilist, | whose turbulent career in the prize ring and elsewhere has given him wide notoriety, was mysteriously mur- | dered early today in West 41st street, in the district known as *Hell's Kitch- en” The one-time light-heavyweight champion was found lving face down- rd with two gunshot wounds in the back. A revolver with two exploded | | shells was found in the gutter not far The police could find no one who witnessed the killing. The exchanged zreetings with Siki shortly after midnight. came upon the body four hours later. An ambulance phy- sician found the Senegalese dead with one buifet in his lung and an- Believed in Brawl. E is believed by detectives to have had a brawl in one of the num- ber of night clubs in the neighbor- hood and that after the altercation he | was followed into the street and struck {down from behind. He was felled {in the same spot where last Sum- | mer he was attacked and almost ! killed with a knife in a street fight. | The Senegalese lived near the scene of the killing. His wife identified the bedy at the police station. Siki's widow told police that she last { saw her husband about 7 o'clock last night, at the street door of their apartment. She said Siki had told her he was going for a talk “with some of the boys for a while. She went to | a_movie, returning about 11 o'clock. Giki was not in, and she retired. At 6 o'clock this morning she was awak- ened with the news that her husband had been killed. Mrs. Siki said their household ef. | fects were all packed, preparatory to | golng to Washington, where her hus | band had a theatrical engagement | “He was a_good boy,” she said of “He was just m <. ile would never harm anyhody Siki recently had trouble with ¢ | resident of the neighborhood over an {alleged debt of $20, which the man ! said Siki owed for liquor, the widow told police. Had Many Experiences. “Battling” Siki, who first sprang into public notice when he won the world’s light-heavyweight champion- ship from Georges Carpentier in 1922 in Paris, has had many escapades | which frequently resulted in brawls. | He has been injured several times in | street fights in this country and spent | some time recently in the French Hos- | pital here as a result of a knife wound. | Since his arrival in the United |States in 1923 after losing his title at the hands of Mike McTigue in Dublin, he has engaged in many bouts, but without notable success. In July, 1924, he came into promi- {nence when he married Lillian Wer- ner, an Octoroon, although he had a | white common law wife in Holland. |After his marriage he took residence {in one of the negro sections of New {York, but soon ran afoul of the immi- gration authorities, who sought to have | him returned to France. He was given several stays and on November 10 of this year made application to ke out his first citizenship papers. Stki seemed to have a penchant for | getting in trouble with taxicab drivers when he would go on long rides with- out sufficient funds to pay the fare. Frequently he was arrested for mot | paying his fare, but always managed ito find friends who would make good |the amount. Once he attacked a po- {liceman® while intoxicated and was {charged with felonious assault. He was fined $5 for this escapade and was {only saved from a workhouse sentence {by his wife, who pleaded with the magistrate for lehiency. Knocked Out Carpentier. | Battling Siki won the light heavy- | welght championship of the world, together with several French titles, when he knocked out Georges Car- pentier in the sixth round of-a match {in Paris September 24, 1922. His sen- sational rise to pugilistic fame, how- ! ever, was followed by a storm which rocked French boxing circles for sev- | eral months. Siki, a picturesque figure of the | Montmartre section of Paris, who | boasted that he trained for his bouts on wine and “high life,” was in the midst of recelving a deluge of fabu- lous offers for fights in England, the (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) i : ki TO GIVE NEEDY Bleak Side of Pre-Chri and Sundered by Illness and Mishaps. Hurrying crowds in the shops and on the streets—mysterious bundles, daintily wrapped—the happy anticipa- tion of little children—the gathering of loved ones together—candies burn- ing cheerfully in the windows at dusk, another year gone by and the thanks for what it has brought, another year to come and confidence in what it will bring—that is one side of the Christ- mas season Those who are in the crowds, but not of them—those who cram cvid fingers into empty pockets, hurrying on with | bitter, set faces—little children, wise bevond their rs, scornful and nical where there's talk of Santa Claus—homes that are cold and deso- late—loved ones torn apart—another vear gone by, another year to come— and that is the other side of the Christm season. Following {its annual custom, the Assoclated Charities today presented its 14 opportunites to those who know this first side of the picture, and asks them to pause for a moment in their busy preparations for another season | of happiness and good cheer—to loo! mas Picture Presented in Families of Capital Burdened With Misfortune its meeting vesterday afternoon, but he wished the committee to under stand fully that he intended to follow the course which he had marked out for himself with regard to progressive measures S ARE OFFERED HAPPY YULETIDE Text of Letter. His letter to Senator Watson fol 1ed through the rorning that the com tees has voted to re. committee assignments 1o Before this formal action is taken by the committee it seems important that there should be no | the Senate for a moment on the other side. The | opportunities thus presented are | chosen because they are merited cases. | misunderstanding as to my position Each has been investigated. Each 1S| ‘At the recent special election held worthy. Every penny given will bear | 1o fill the vacancy created by the interest in the alleviation of real suf- | death of Robert M. La Follette I we fering and will help those who deserve | designated as the regular Republican help. i nominee by the voters of Wisconsin Contributions may be sent to John .t the primary and dulv elected un- Joy Edson, treasurer, Social Service!ger cych desiznation House, 1022 Eleventh street northwest, | “L 7% (ORFRAUOR - d or to the office of The Star, and will | ,p i e B e | throughout my campaign. 1 declared le ., | my allegiance to the progressive prin OPPORTUNITY NO. 1 — FOUR|ciples and policies of go\'ermnen‘; as YEARS IN HOSPITAL. , |interpreted and applied by the la Four weeks in a hospital is an ex-| Robert M. La Follette throughout h: perience few have to undergo. But|entire public career. The platform this father has been ill in a hospital | upon which I was nominated and for four years. And there are five!elected was that upon which he an children at home, and a mother, frail, ced his suceessful-candidacy for delicate, but keeping that home for the Senatein the RapuBlican primary the children. The oldest boy is 15. He of 1922, and upon which the Repub. is doing his part by working after|lican members of the House of Re ;"hwl"l' H‘e ilfi (nread.\; planning “hillhrrsenmu\'es from Wisconsin we: e will do later and is anxious to| shoulder a heavier burden. The oldest | ©c .0 &t the same time. Stands by Platform. girl is planning a busine: e. The T shall, during my service in the (Continued on Page 5, Column D. C. COMMITTEE IN HOUSE CHANGED Keller Becomes Ranking Re- publican, Lampert Demoted and Fitzgerald Retires. The republican membership of the House District committee was offi- cially announced today following a conference of the subcommittee of the | Republican committee on committees. Representative Roy G. of Ohio, who becomes chairman of the committee on revision of the laws, re- iires from the House District com- mittee. Representative Charles L. Underhill, Republican. of Massachusetts, who was expected to retire from the Dis trict committee because of other as- signments, remains. Representative Oscar E. Keller, Re- publican, of Minnesota, who was sup-: posed to be listed for “punishment” by the Republican majority in the House because of his having at one time supported the La Foilette pro- gressive movement, has proven his loyalty to the Republican party and to President Coolidge in the last cam- paign, and is allowed to retain his seniority standing on the District com- mittee, which now makes him ranking Republican. Representative Floran Lampert of Wisconsin, who has been an out and out avowed follower of the La Fol- lette standard, would have been rank- ing Republican of the District com- mittee, but under the system adopted by the committee on committees not (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Fitzgerald | | Senate, adhere to the letter and the spirit of the platform upon which 1 was elected, and shall follow the in dependent course which I have ! marked out for myself. ‘With these facts before the c: mittee, should they assign me to c mitteek as indicated by the press, I shall accept such formal assign ments.” WOMAN S FOUND | ing- after he had received Senator La | Follette's letter, and La_Follette's at- titude was discussed. The committee decided, however, to adhere to the action it took yesterday, and Senator La Follette will be assigned as a Re- | publican to the standing committees Senator Watson said after the mee: | ing that he did not think Senator L | Follette's letter called for an answer Get Unimportant Posts. The House Republicans dealt differ ently with their Wisconsin insurgents completing committee organizations tod They ed the tnsurgents to unimpor ts without recog nition of the rank usually accorded for previous ser All of the insurgent group were relegated to minor committees and in jevery. instance placed at the bottom of the Republican membership. Those who had held chairmanships or places on the more important committees previously had been ejected from these Posts. Insurgents were assigned as follows: Representative Nelson to the invalil pensions, public roads and expendi tures in the Interior Department com- mittees Representative Lampert to the D trict of Columbia, coinage, weigh and measures. patents and territor Representatives Cooper,- foreign af fair Browne, irrigation, civil servic. and expenditures in the State Depart ment; Beck, labor, claims, railways and canals: -Schneider, railways ami Widow Who Disappeared When Veteran Died Lo- cated by Police. Unscathed after a 24-hour self-im-| posed exile in a sheltered glen in Rock Creek Park, where she told police she sought solace following the death of her husband at Walter Reed Hospital yesterday morning, 28-year-old Mrs Mary Klaphaak, mother of two or- phaned babies, was found early today by a band of weary police searchers led by Sergt. S. J. Marks of the four- teenth precinct station A bunch of roses, Klaphaak under last night's under standing stars in memory of the voung husband whom she nursed with passionate persistence through a long iliness, was the clue which rewarded the searchers for the unhappy young woman who parked car on the edge of the woods ye . noon aftey completir rangements for her hust in Michigan “I wanted to be alone,” Mrs haak told her discoverers after they had found her asleep on an impro. vised bed of newspapers in Rock Creek Park east of Wise road and near Dan- | .apals, expenditures in Interior De s el G ity partment: Frear, flood control, Indian I'm sorry I caused you so much | affairs; expenditures in Justice De trouble,” the young woman continued | partment. with a wan smile. “I saw flashes of | 'Representative Peavey, flood con light during the night, but I Was|trol, war claims, expenditures in Post afraid to make an outcry because I|omce Department: — Representative ~ | Schafer, railways and canals, expendt- tures in the War Department and picked by Mrs (Continued on Page Column 1.) Student Spurns Phi Thinks Grades By Consolidated Press. LAWRENCE, Kans., December 15 —To call attention of the world to his stand in opposition to “cramming” and efforts to please teachers rather than gain real knowl- edge, Floyd Simonton of Kansas City, Mo., honor senior of the University of Kansas, has refused membership in the Phi Beta Kappa, honorary col- lege fraternity. Simonton’s action is in unusual con- trast to the general eagerness of col- Jege students to win Phi Beta Kappa membership, in most cases voted by faculty members. Pleasing a_professor, getting good grades and filling one's head with in- formation only to pass an examina- tion is not obtaining a genuine edu- cation, Simonton contends. In_a public announcement of his stand he says, in part, in a letter re- fusing the honor: “I appreciate deep- 1y the honor, but I do not subscribe to the ideal of the high grade which I understand is the ideal of Phi Beta Kappa. I honestly believe that in the circumstances of our State universi- ties today, with their large classes and unindividualized treatment of students, to strive for high grades is ~ college | woman suffrage. Women's Appointments. Mrs. ilorence P. Kahn, Republican California, was assigned to the com- mittees on _education, expenditures in the War Department and coinaze weights Mr Beta Kappa Key; Foes of Scholarship Rogers, Republi to World War in the Navy arts and | detrimental to the hest interests of | scholarship. “To get an ‘A’ grade requires a de. gree of docility and useless industry that is fatal to the independence, in- frage. | itiative and spirit of adventure which Repre: en‘dl“e.~‘|“(‘|31‘;0f North _D_xl-‘ are the very liteblood, it seems (o me, | K s T e aopart of the true scholar and scientist. . “In short I feel that the grade sys- ! “_?:e‘prezexxrs‘g;:"fie:fi:.mgo:h 4 tem of our schools is a false criterion | fvisconsin, I R Ty of scholarship and is a dangerous tons. expenditures on public bulldings foundation for ‘intellectual - idealism | o e e B s g oo i i o | Soctallst in the House, did not request ‘L recall my own experience With|py committee assignments. grades, for T sadly admit that many | " Representative Kvale, Independent, of the ‘A's’ came from ‘grinding,’| ;¢ \finnesota, to alcoholic lquors, crammigg,’ doing what the ‘prof’| ginzge, weights and measures and in |expects, and working for grades. I|gomery S |feel 1 have sacrificed my own devel-| “'Representative Wefald, Farmer opment for the empty honor of a| e I orar that 1 the onor £f 42| Labor, Minnesota, to invalid pensions, fi:;:r-mg h?;; gr“\;p’; @ price of our! patents and expenditures in the Tr YOt course, i high grades and hign; 'Y Department. scholarship were synonymous there would be no point in what I say. But in our academic system, where s much of the educational process is| formal, I do not see how it is possible for a student to be a ‘straight A’ man without wasting much of his energies on the forms and husks which are inevitable in courses which are taught, not to individuals, but to clgsses of 30, 50, 100 and even' 150.” veterans, expenditure Department, industrial woman's suffrage. Center Poles Removed. The Capital Traction Co. notified the | Public Utllities Commission today that {all of its center trolley poles between Albermarle street and Chevy Chase Circle have been removed. The next step, the company reported, calls for removal of the poles between Alber- marle street and Klingle Road Bric 5