Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1925, Page 2

£ THE EVENING CUTIN POPULATION OF PRISONS SHOWN Rate of 99.7 Per 100.000 in U. S. in 1923. as Against 121.2in 1910. B e Prose peoplie Ao The Americ Incrensed ahility o are showing of keep- red in the way today in e Burean 1 on the prison population of the Nation nsus Covering estimates as of January 1923 3 which the 1 facts latest date hie were obtain the hurean ite 108 placed imber in prisen 13 This indic ment rate of 99.7 per lation for 1923, where: was 121.2 per 100,000, The warned. however he 1 &hould not he considered as axact vealing previ crime general. nor specific fenses,” because of the rise of the pro hation system. the leniency in treatinz juvenile delinquency and other chang had operated the imprsonment results of court operation in as against 111,498 on Jannary e an imprison 100000 of pop < in 1910 the rate hurean nre relative nee the in Drop in Drunkenness Although omitting comment as the effects of prohibition. the report said that commitments to penal insti tutions for drunkenness numbered 91.367 in 1923, and 176.787 in 1910, This the higgest drop shown in the was comparisons The total number to penal institutions in mated by the bureau to while in 1910 the comparable fizures | were 470 Nearly all tvpes of ous erime showed fewer conviciions in | the later though convictions for Vidlating the liquor laws, which num- | hered but 7,713 in 1910, rase to 39,310 | in 1923, The male sex have an overwhelming responsibillty in the matter On January 1 95 per cent « prisoners In penal institutions men, and only 5192, or 4.8 per of the prison population was femir The fizures up to January | did not chanze materially the propor tions hetween men and wemen oners as compared with 1810, additional figures indicated an in-| crease of criminality during the first | six months of 1923, when 153018 men | were committed. as against 13310 | women | Aze of Criminals. | 24 vears| zronp of per cent of committments 1923 was esth e 357,103 | ‘ | pris but Persons hetwesn and of age made up the larzest the prison population. 34.2 bheing in this category Considerinz zeographical distribu- | ton of prison population, the Western | mountain district of the country | showed a_commitment rate of 47.3 per | 100,000 population during 1923, while | the West South-central division had | 44.2, the Pacific division 43 and Middle | Atlantic division but 20.05. and New | England but 21 i Considering the number actually in prison on January 1. 1923, New Hamp- | thire's record appeared 1o be the low- | est. with 54.6 persons confined 1o each | 100,000 of population. Nevada, in the | mountain country. was at the other end of the list, having 353 persons to each 100.000 of population in prison while the next closest was Arizona with a figure of 315.6. | PEDESTRIAN COACHING | COMPLETED BY POLICE Disobadience of Law on Biz Scale Will Bring Arrests. Hesse : Declares. | The educational eampaign of the| Police Department to acquaint pedes. trians with the new trol regulation has ended. and the spe. eial detail of officers stationed at husy pedestrian con- | intersections has heen assigned | it was snnounced to- | Edwin R atreet to ather posts. to day by Maj tendent of police. Hereafter pedestrians who cross walks where traffic officers are on duty against signals will be liable to ar rest, but Maj. Hesse does not intend instruct the police to enforce this regulation rigidly unless the public! shows a zeneral disregard for As long as I find a spirit on the part of pedestrians to cross intersec- | tions with trafic 1 will not insist on| arrests being made if some thought- less persons violate the regulation.” | said the police chief. “If the public! shows a general disregard. however. I Wil order the officers to clamp down. The penalty for violating the pedes trian conirol regulation ranges from minimum of $1 to a maximum of | £300. M. O. Eldridge. director of traf. fie. is in favor of a $5 fine for first of. fenses | DRESS>SHOW.S FOR MEN POPULAR IN LONDON Exhibits Rival Mannequin Parades | Hesse, superin- | it for Opposite Sex and Attract ;. Feminine Visitors. Br the Associatad Press LONDON, December for Dress West | instituted by End clothisrs haberdashers, as popular the parades for the opposite sex The afternoon shows for attracting women well men. The originators. however. decry this, | for they fear that a feminine influ. | ance will creep into male fashions, and anvway. it is easier to sell to a man who is not accompanied by his women folk. In some shops several shows are heing staged simultaneously, ex hibiting shirts and collars and ties as well as suits, overcoats and hats. Wide trougers are still in vogue i fashionable London, but the new conts | have less waist line The double- | hreasted vest has disappeared. but the double-hreasted coats are siill popular Military overcoats are the only ones being shown FIVE PERSONS DROWN. shows men and ar now as mannequin | men are | Two Men Lose Lives Trying to Rescue Attorney. EUREKA, Calif., December 26 ). Five persons drowned here vesterday, two sacrificing their lives in an at- tempt to save a friend. Dr. Clarence Graham, aged 30, and Edwin Morrison, 26, died trying to pull George Howe, an attorney, from a strong ocean current. Howe was Tinally rescued, being dragged into a rowboat by Herbert King Three children were drowned in a | slough. Former Merchant Ends Life. SHREVEPORT, La December 26 (#).—1saac_Sorcan, 3l former mer chant, died heve vesterday from bullet wound through the head. u was his fifty-first birthday Coroner Willie P. Butler declared it a case of uicide. Despondency over finances wae sald by friends to hav been the cause., 4 | the early | the T Christmas Accumulation All Hands Join to Clear 'WORKERS MOVE AT RECORD SPEED O REDUCE HOLIDAY MAIL PILES t Local Office Heavy, But Away Tremendous Heap Before Night—Force Is Augmented. Moving a volume before Office today pose of he of holiday Christmas had Auzmented every incomiug ihe City at record of mail faced in the employes h tre mail over holiday apeed 10 handie larger than eve Washington Post there are working h pressure o dis endous aceumulition the first full they ever have by deliveries from Washin tinz roon with hold. umnlated hezinning ins away train in Post Office was piled hizh early te over muil. which had during the hour holiday At midnight Thursday. Cl of the 1remendons pile was well unde way by 10 oclock and by nizht all the citv mail. which had accumulated will hove heen disposed of, according to Willlam M assistant postmaster Hayeock Speed Big Factor. Speed s the essential handlinz and sorting wmail, and when Work stops even for a few mimutes it counte heavily. so the 24-hour holiday <et current handling of the unusually larze volume of Christmas mail just that far hack. And equally the amount holiday mail this vear Is larger han ever before. Stacks of sacks of Government mall are piled up in inz room today awaiting a from Government trucks to han dle them. They will not be moved to aa all the oth wernmental ma chi in Washington is closed down Much of the unusual mail accumu lation My, Haveock said. to the FEW factor in < due. Action of Widow Not Surprising to Friends—Epis-| tles Often Very Confidential and for Publ BY ROBERT T. SMALL. letters the late President Hardinz hurned by his widow shortly hefore her own death were very v those written and received by Hardinz prior hi< inaugu larg My tion Most of the letters received by Harding President. and copies letters written by him during his all of reign the White louse by Mrs. Harding turned trustees the Harding Me My were to the of morial Assoclation The assoeiation sonietime to seal the entire Hardinz and it was said today to be un that it will reconsider this actic even at the request of officials of the Library of Congress e de sirous ¢ of adding the presidential coMvesponden: ready ago voted letter file Kely [ collection ressional archives, Burning No Surprise. The disclosure of Harding of the burning etters did not co a surprise to all of Washington for those who wére in the confidence of President Harding knew that his letters to friends and associntes were nearlv alwave written in a vein personal and intimate that publication of them was the farthest thinz from his mind. It i= also recalled that after the late President’s death Mrs. Harding spent many days zoingz over his personal and official letter files. passing her own final judgment on the corre. spondence that was to he saved or Aestroved. Mre. Harding had in mind the wri ing of an intimate biography of h jistinguished huszband and it was s ymed she would use certain of his letters in this work. Her own failinz health afier the President had passed away made 1t impossible for her even to begin the task she had set hefor herself in the same brave spirit which had animated her all her life. At Mrs. Harding's death in Marion it FOREHEADS SEEN AGAIN. as Women's Ears Must Still Remain Covered, However. LONDON, December 26 () ‘ore- heads have again hecome fashionahle, hut women's ears must still he cov- ered up and are useful only as ap pendages from which great earrings mayv dangle. The London hairdressers have come tn the rescue of women whose heads and faces lack the highly classical lines necessary to make the slicked down hair becoming. The bair is now swept straight back from the forehead and some of the second 1y waves cause dainty loops tn ver the ears, merely indicatin shape the head without ac- centuating unattractive lines SHOOTING EXCITES TOWN. Is Wounded Near Where Three Were Murdered. 1L, December Batavia, near excitement last night when Frank Cross. 17, a farmhan was wonnded hy an unidentified as- sailant three milex from the point where two weeks ago Henry Jeske. bank clerk, his wife and son were murdered in the doorway of their farm home near Batavia Cross was shot in the arm 1 fall of any Man ) — here, were AURORA 26 Citizens of thrown into as he | stood in the vard at the Mooseheart farm. Neither he nor manager of the farm clue to the assailant Sheriff Vierke of Batavia, who was immoned, declaved the clreum- stances of the shooting ure similar that of the Jeskes Citizens were aroused Ly the thought that the killer of (he Jeskes may still be at large in the neighh hood J. A. Redore could give a o It you want work, columns of The Star read the want 319 Planes on Hand. Patl'lck;s Report to Department Reveals| Ry the Aseociated Press. A new and official array of figures on how many service alrplanes the Army really has—a question that h; been handied about in Air Rervice in- vestigational circles for the last vear with as much confusion of answers as the old catch, “How old ix Ann?" is turnished in the report to Secretury Davis by Maj. Gen. Mason M. Pat- Alr Service chief. eaking as of June Gen. ck said there were 319 service planes on hand, an adding “Does not include wartime equip- ment and experimental tvpes. War time equipment is unsuited for active service and has deteriorated to the ex- tent of needing immediate replace. ment These planes “on Pat- afr- hand” were tabu- ’ . attached note | the heed arly faflure of ihe public to heistmas admonition, “Mail Somany people muil [cards and small packages on Decem- ber 24 helieving they will be delive on Christmas day,” Mr. Haveock said With =uch n heavy volume of mail as i« hundled nt this time of vear, many of them will et be delivered uniil to duv. These cards and packizes should have been mailed eavlier to be sure of prompt delivery before Christmas,” Work Heavy. | Fhe well-oiled machinery Hincoming sorting room moved swiftly reduce the extraordinarily heavy weeumulntion, even while incoming Western trains added to the hurden the more than 200 <orters, This staff was augmented by additions from the ontgoin which had handled a very small alime of mail today and was current < waork at all times. The parcel t room likewise was virt Iy clear work. Tncoming of the city o of In spite of the unprecedented volume of Christmas mail there w ve heen no such accwmulation had it not been for the holiday, Post Office of- ficials said. At the same time they are gratified that the staff the Post Office could have had Christmas duy off 1o break the routine of work at the husiest season of the The , sorting room staff e, increased at inother t coming to clock doubling for a few veur alveady noon b work at 12 the mail honrs <hif virtually handling capueity BURNED HARDING LETTERS WRITTEN DURING PRESIDENCY ever Intended cation, Intimates Declare. s learned she had willed the Hard ing letter file and all her memoranda o the Harding \lemorkl Association Alniost tmmediately applications from various authorization to write the Some of the from persons who closely associated with that the contest for the hiographical privilege was embarrass ing to the trustees to say the least It was after a full consideration of the sitnation created that the trustees decided it would he hest for all concerne. the Harding file for all time and to release none of the letters for publication public dispiay. In the Associatior | sources for Harding biography ipplications were had been so Mr. Harding thus it 1o close sense that Theodore Roose veit wrote letters, and Woodrow Wil 1 wiote them. Mr. Harding was not a letter-writing President. He did not use the letter system of publicity and burpose. 1f he wanted to make a pub Jic utterance he made a speech. Let he resarded “personal” vii tually alwavs. It this reason that he wrote so and inti mately. Had Man President H. also of inviting or of having them He was warm-hearted and alwayve svmpathetic The trustees of the Hardipg Memorial Association, mostly the surviving members of his cabinet, have feli it would not be fair to the writers of the confidential ietters to make them puhlic. nor 1o print the Harding replies The file in the possession of the -association nevertheless is vy one. 1i in- cludes among other things conside able correspondence with respect to the formation of the Harding cabi- net—pre-inauguration letters which | Mrs. Harding did not burn The present disposition of the | Harding trustees i to keep all these | letters sealed. Maybe some time soon will frankly Confldences. rding had the faculiy intimate confidence thrust upon him he. he destroved | PRODUCTION INCREASES. Departmen: of Commerce Shows Gains in Many Lines. Increase in production of many commodities was recorded during No vember, the Commerce Depariment re. ported today. while bullding contracts awarded in 36 States alse srew in comparison with the same month n vear ago. Salex of new life insur ance were greater than in November last vear. Inereases occurred in comparison with October. 1925 in_production of silver and cottonseed oil and in hook Ings of steel plate. while output automobiles, lead. steel sheets, lum ber. news print p and several other commodities decreased, due, (he department said. to the shorter month. BECKETT IS REWARDED. o | | | Jelleff, Inc.; Insurance Company and Others Make Presents. The exploit of Andrew Reckett, col- | ored emplove of Frank R. lelleff. Tnc in saving a $6.000 pay roll last week when attacked by hold-up men, was | |rewarded in a special Christmas re. membrance from his employer ves terday. He also received gifts from the Insurance company which he pro. tected In his courageous repulse of the hhers, single-handed. and from sev. |eral merchants of the city Beckett also has received the hand clasp of President Coolidge since his €xpluil, going to the White ITouse and being received in the line with othe [during the visitors’ hour, Ile al [ was extended appreciation by colored Elks through J. Finley Wilson. srand exalted ruler. Don't Get Very Far. From the' Colorado Springs Gazette. | Folks who go with the always part of the crowd. crowd are lated ax consisting of 31 training. 167 observation. 95 hombardment amd 26 pursuit planes. There were no attack or transport types in the list. A second grouping of ‘“airplanes | contracted for or scheduled Zor pur. | chase but not vet delivered.” included 165 training, 49 observation, 40 bom- bardment, %5 pursuit, no attack and 10 transport types, making a total on hand or in early prospect of 737 | machines of all types. Under “shortage” of airplanes, Gen. Patrick «said this figure repre- | sented a defictency of 950 planes under “‘present peacetime requirements” and of 2,180 under the Lassiter board proj lect for the Air Service approved by the department. He placed the cost of making up the shortage to present raquirements at $15,803,000 and to the Lassiter board schedule at $43,429,000. [§ Iy Christmas | fast-moving | mail room | there came to the | AR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1925. BUTLERWILLGET SAN DIEGO POST 1 { | [ i ‘ Weicomed Back to Marine, | Coros After Philadelphia | Dismissal. | Brig [was st usual week nedley D, Butler, who | dismissed within public Gen. s nonrily circumstances ax divecior Philadelphin. has | 'to the Murine ¢ which he Ihad rexigned. with open il came known toduy. He will be \ to [ Corpe station in mand of the West force at San Diezo The resignation which G Butler had forwarded 1o marine headquarters {wis held up when Mayor Kendrick of | {I’hiludelphia dismissed the general Decision to assixn Gen. Butler San Dieso post interpr as o distinet compliment to tirning officer tutler is expected to arrive in 0 early next week for a con h Maj. Gen. John A. | jeune, commandant of the Marine Corps, and will probably leave for his Western detail imr ely. ‘GIRL IN HOSPITAL AFTER COUPE CRASH under un- | the safety past | o at nowelcomed hack px. from the 1 |nssiznment 2 Marine West, in 18t expedition com ry the re ferenc | Party on Way From Baltimore | Wrecked Near Laurel, Md. Two Men Fined. Spacial Dispateh to The Star | LAUREL, Md Ressie Smith | seriously injured | of Washington Clarence Summers and of Washinglon suffers | duries when a light Nummers wis wied the Wash ington-Baltimore houlevard 2 miles cast of here shortly before 12 o'clock lust night Miss Smith gency Hospital Miss Jones and the ol to their homes. The two mer before a justice of the peace and mers was fined $160 on a | drunkenness ana s reckless driving $25 on a charg The police say [ inte a wrecking « # Laurel auto | mobile company. which was standinz | heside 4 wrecked machine with i ved 1 Asplaved. The g the Washingtor mare 'GIFTS FOR l:IGHTHbUSES.! Twelve Radio Sets Sent by Rich' Woman to Baltimore. 6. Miss December Washington Miss Irene was hruised M. W Bowers slight driven In upe Emer while returned eared i charge o on a charge of Powers wa ned coupe wis tuken Washington, s the Crashed way to om Ralti- Specinl Dipatch to The Sta BALTIMORE. Decenber Light in the Chesapeake Buv sec tion will shortly he able to “tune in With the rest of the world, a wealthy woman of New York having sent 12 Darge radio sets Harold D. King. | superintendent the Baltimore lighthouse district, for distribution | !among lighthouse tenders, light ves- {sele and shore stations | | The sets will he distributed. Mr | King =aid. to the tenders Mayflower { Hollv. Laurel and Juniper: the repair | {barge Vine and the lighthouse {tions at Sandy Point, Hoopers land, Smiths Point, Wolf Thimble Shoal. Rl Shoal | Brandt Ixiand Shoal ‘ YALE OFFERING TONIGHT. Members of Dramatic Association houses sta Is-| rap, and to Present “‘Out o’ Luck.” Dramatic its “Out o Theater Yale University which s s tour, will a war comedy $y the Wardman Park he soeiation | Christm: | Luck | ing. at | tonight Although not musical the play is enlivened by dier songs, written by Cole Porter H 3. It is heing presented under the !direction of Ed M. Woolley of the [elase of 1911." Eight cities are on the | {orEanization’s itinerary this vear. | [ TWINS SEE 93D YULETIDE. | several sol- | Sisters Pass Day Quietly in Fair- | field. Conn.. Home. | i FAIRFIELD. 25 (72 sarah | Maria Seymour, believed to he the sldest twing in the United States, | passed their ninety-third Christmas at { their home here quietly vesterday, ax | neighbors and friends visited them to | {extend the season’s greetings { Rorn January 9. 1833, the | were so alike in s that when they | went to school one had to wear a | string on her finger to identify her | from the other. | WAR ON VULGARITY IN DRESS IS OPENED BY SOCIETY LEADERS | i Conn., December Mary Sophia Dowd and twins (Continued from First Page.) cultivate innate modesty, good taste ) or good morals. Would Ban Cigarettes. “That, in the interest of future pub- lic health and efficiency, we pray that | |the comparatively new fushion of | ‘igarettes be abandoned, M that re- | serves from health capital, expended | {to save the living organisms from | | perils of poison, Ineyitably lead sooner lor later bankruptey | race degenerncy. That women's col- | ileges, whose m it is to teach ) what hest hefits girls for future life— | viz., life's greatest asset, normal | physical heaith. could aid in dixcipline | by dismissing those who refuse to con- | form to college rules. It is confidently hoped by the spon- sors of this movement that if the so- clety women of America set a proper example. the yvounger generations in all stations of life will quickly follow it and get the family life of this Nation back to the healthy moral standard it had set up before the war. Mrs. Henderson said she had discussed the question with M. Caillaux during his visit to America with the French deht mission, and she expressed confidence that the better elements of France al- ready are in sympathy with more modest fashions and habits’ to physical and Dowager Queen Reported Better. BORDIGHERA, Ttaly. December 26 | ®).—The condition of Dowager Queen Marghertia has considerably im- proved. The bulletin issued by the attending physicians says the pleurisy from which he has been suffering has “sensibly ameliorated.” rolina Harris, who was found dead . 5. who is dead; Mary , 4, at E in Foxhall Heights, where the tragedy versity Hospital, and Jamies W. Harris, Below: The' h afternoon with her held for observa at tly with poisoning the Christmas presents vesterd Lorena Harris, ergency Hosy children, Georgetown left to Uni- three oecurred leavin unopened and the glistening Christmas tree unnotice MISS FERGUSON DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS i Retired Employe of Bureau of En- graving and Printing Was in Service Fifty Years. Miss Rosalie Ferguson, 86 vears old retired employe of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. where <, and a resident of thi: died ut he Pennsylvania avenie ilness $E street wnd er of members of wenty-third the duugl mes and Mrs. A Her father was for many tnently connected with t irvey. Funeral will ondneted St. Paul’s Church Monday morning 11 a'clock. Rev. Arlington A. Me Callum. rector. will officiate. Inter ment will he in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mra. Mary M. Robinson. a cousin. who is the sister of Judde Henry Man dell of Detroit. has heen notified of Miss Ferguson's death, and will attend funeral services here. Miss Ferguson also leaves several other cousins. POISONING OF TWO. ILLNESS OF 3, DUE TO MONOXIDE GAS (Continued from First Page.) Church Pennsyl She was twaer, services he tectives Arrington and Carroll and Po. licemen Davis and owsley. After Harris was examined by physi ans at Nergency Hospital and found not to be ill, he was held all night in the witness room of the sta tion house. His brother, George Har- ris. of 3171 Eighteenth street, visited him today and endeavored to console kim While they were in conversation, the father, Trueman Compton Harris, of the Eighteenth street address, enter- €d, and when father and son faced each other hoth broke into tears. Members of the Harris family today were communicating with relatives of Mrs. Beyer in Schenectady and other persons connected with both familias, vears old, and 10 vears her senior. he entire family has lived in Wash inglon aboul (W0 years; coming here from near W renton, Va. Mr. Har- rix, senlor, is a comtractor, and his son, a carpetner, divided his time be- tween working for his father and on contracts of his own. 14 ABOVE FORECAST FOR D. C. TONIGHT. COLD SNAP TO LAST (Continued from First Page.) Dawes, had 2 below, drops of more than a score degrees in 24 hours. The cold and Christmas celebrations caused 110 fires in Chicago. teports from San Diego, Calif., said that_city had the hottest Christmas in the history of its weather bureau, §3.2 degrees. Many went in bathing. At Minot, N. Dak. the Federal Wenther Bureau thermometer regis- tered 23 below at 8 a.m. Weather predictions for the Chicago. area sald that the temperature would £o 10 10 below tonight. Dream Comes True Quickly. Albert Lord, an English magistrate, was dreaming that his office in Lon- don was being robbed. In the midst of his dream he was awakened by the telephone bell and informed that a burglar in his office had been caught. h Scale Fossil Discovery Extends World Age Estimate Millions of Years Fis By the Associated T NEW YORK silized fish scale, scarcely larger a match head vered at St Al hans. Vi, s foreing sclentists to ex tend estimates of pre-human life hack- ward millions of vears, the New York Times save today Howell's Dawn fish that has heen given to this denizen of the Cambrian age. whic hepetofore heen supposed a4 only by lower order. And altho is no information on which description but this fish “plate ed, tists important chordata- isted in 1000 vea sity. discoverer it corresponds present species seribed as being which probably of the plate o the said that scale of the of fish. 1t was de- part of the armor defended the head nd foretrunk of some hitherto un- known fish. It ix said it may throw the origin of the fish as a 26.—A is the name en the Princeton eontology. Prof. How- Charles Schuchert of of geology at Yale ast Summer on the final day expedition. which wax one s extended over 13 yveurs by Towell find chordata in ian strata fossil was found in shale contained trilobites and brachi which enabled scientists « the age of the strata. and hat fish might have origin in salt water instead as had been believed plate iseum of v and Prof. and plants the department h there | found it 4 fiel is now in was . nvertebrates ' o base a | of highly that D what iy primitive vertebrae—ex had been sidered a age’” 40,000,000 is o is ) dawn of to es- in had of its lowest Prof. B. F ment of geology [HOLIDAY MISHAPS | DEATH TOLL NEAR 40 | | ALL OVER NATION in s Howell of the t Princeton depart- | their Unive fresh DISPUTE DR. WISE'S VIEWS OF SAVIOR (Continued from First Page.) (Continued from First Page.) her fa as che tted nily on Mrs. ivide. | | were no children | whom to lavish Christy | Nellie Curren ‘ AU EI | were sudd Axuilar bjeda, in overwhelming me jorit He is the Messiah and Savior, helief we .ews cannot accept. ern science and liberal thought do not change thix belief, which our fore. futhers defended. and this always has been one of the chief distinctions be tween the two religions. The main reason that the Jews cannot accep Jesus is that all the Christian world when it accepts Him says He ix the Messiuh, and Jews cannot subscribe to that idea.” Will Respect Others. and this Mod Tex.. seven children left shot 30, at he roomed. following as to who would buy the Christmax dinne Nine dead wax the toll last night of Yuletide merrymaking in St. Louis Seven were killed in traffic accidents Christmas eve, and vesterday a vouth | “\Ve do not wish to quarrel with was fatally burned while plaving | Christians on theology and we will not ! Santa Claus at a Christmas tree in his [ guarrel with them, because we respect {home, and a man was shot and killed | their heliefs, But we do wish to speak in an’ altercation during a Christmas | to our own Jewish people, and to them beer party. { we must say we cannot and must not | Those who lost lives in traffic | accept Jesus for ourselves. because it | mishaps were: Harvey Leponitz. 70.{ will mean the disappearance of our re. |address unknewn: Mrs. Genevieve ' ligion and our people. | Krewinghay Frances Sny- | intelligent Christian hates us | der, 40: religion and no Christian asks f Kretch- | 5 1o give up our religion. Why shall mar, 24, all of St. Louis, and D. Hide )bi and Jewish leader ask us lo brandt. 21, of Granite City, Hi. 1 do s0? Because we ure a minority”? nta Claus costume was ignited by | Are Cheistians who live among Mo @ candle on @ Christmas tree while he | hammedans expected 1o sccept Mo | was distributing gifts among his | hammed? Do the Christians brothers and sisters Christmas eve. | among the Buddhists say Admits Slaying. | cept Buddha? i “As for Christian morality and Charles W. Baker, 27,'surrendered to | Jesus' code of ethics these wure the police yesterday and confessed having | xame for Christians and Jews because shot and killed John J. Krause, 48.-in | their origin is Jewish and we need la fight on a houseboat on the Missis- | not epeuk of accepting them.” sippi River as @ result of w “Christ-| Rabbi Schwefel quoted the famous mas beer part { Christian historian Renan: ““The ori- At Scottsburg. Ind., three hunters:gin of Christian ethics are in Judaism are dead as the result of an inter- and one cannot understand Jesus with urban train striking their automobile | out going back 750 years in Jewish soon after thev had started out on| history E a Christmas hunting party. The dead | “On this day when the Gentiles are ave: John McWilllams, 2 “arl | celebrating their Christmas we speak Burch, 12, and Ward Burch, 26. with all reverence of their religion and | In San Francisco one man | killed and more than a dozen injured, three serjously, when a street car Paso, when Mrs. house 1y motherless killed whose Juan and Carmen an argument provisions for their Mr Ella Connors, ‘Let us ac | all liberal Christians ask the Jews not | for uniformity with them, but unity filled with holiday pleasureseekers! with them. and this we are ready to crashed into another car near Colma ! live up to. vester James Rolick, motorman, | was instantly killed. | . DELAYED AIRMAN‘ SAFE. LE_BOURGET, France, December 26 (P).—Chief Pliot_ Hirsciiffe of the | Imperial Airways, fiying an English plan from Marseille, arrived here! | early this afternoon, setting at rest apprehensions for his safet »m noon yesterday, when he passed over Lyow. no word had been received from Hirscliffe until his arrival toda He was forced to land at Chalons-sur. Saone in a fog last night and resumed his journey this morning. Only Cheerful News Printed. BOSTON, December 26 (#).—The Boston Herald observed Christmas day vesterday by putting out a cheer- ful front page. All news of disagree- able or distressing nature was placed {on inside pages. Man in Taxi Slain. COLUMBUS. Ga., December 26 (#). —An unidentified man, firing on a party returning to Columbus from a family reunion, killed Clem Darnell, 27, and wounded Dave Mundah, a taxi driver, in the foot here last night. | Purpose of Christians | | living | | Chang's s was | their first teacher, but we realize that | SEVEN ARE INJURED INAUTO ACCIDENTS One Man Seriously Hurt When Machine Hits Tree in Northeast. One and ous injurles in traffic ing the last Wi ored. of Arlington cal condition at from automohile man was seriously injured Xix others sustained less seri accidents dur- 24 hours 53 va eedmen’s m Porter, vears old. col is in a erit Hospiial infuries sustained when William of 1940 Tee operated by 34 northeast Henry Porter calored street struck and Sheriff Forty-ninth street road northeast William hospital in Porter was faken ta the hother amohile fering from injuries to the head and hodv. The tree which was struck by the machine was on ihe left-hane side of the road and William Hen: Porter, the driver of the arrested on charge of driving. He was released on app today in Police Another passenger ie machine. Wesley Smith, 60 wred. of Forty- ninth and Lee streets northeast given first-ald treatment for cuts and bruises and left the hospital for his home last Hit by William M. Payner. 44 wtreet southeast. was hit hy an aute mobile. believed by police 1o have heen aperated by Virgil Frazier of Waltey 2eed Hospital. at h nd Pennsylvania vesterday afier noon. He was freated at Emergency Hosp) for ht injuries the head Fiv Sykes jurfes about down by an tol and night. Police say perated by John P street a reckless hond 10 Auto. of 523 Sixtk welf| avenue e-vear-old TP street the hody Thornton Stanley sustained slight in when knocked omobile at North Cap lorida avenue last the automobile was T Kkstine of 1311 Two W A collision erated Hurt. an men bhetween automohile George Ritter irst sireet. and one operated hy liam Razier. % cond street. at Eieventh sireet and Potomac avenie southeast last night resulted in severe cuts and bruises to Mrs. Lena Ritter nd Mrs. Augusta Crethann. occu pants of the first-mentioned machine They were taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment Miss Edith French streef, sustained cuts the bhody vesterday when a in which she was a passenger and an automobile operated by Maurice Red mond. 1308 Ninth sireet. collided at Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue vesterday CHANG TO EXECUTE ALL FOE LEADERS. JAPANESE BELIEVE of 210 ahou taxicah Waddell, 35 (Continued from Page.) finance hdraw minister decision 2,000 of Hamaguchi caused Japan's approximately troops trom Mukden in the near future. probably bhefore the first of the vear. owing the great axpense of maintaining the troops there, the foreign office stated The office added that Japan plans to withdraw the remaining 3.000 troops as soon as conditions pernit Has Demanded Investigation According the foreign office Chang has not yet entered Mukden but it expected he will soon de mand admission and resime control there. and Japan will only accede if there is no danger of fur fight ing. A Japanese correspondent the Tokio Nichi Nichi. named Mizunc is reported to e disappeared nea S[inminfu. and Japan that Ch: investizat azreed The foreign uffice is extremely pessi mistic regarding the outcome of af fairs in Manchuria, althe iterated that Japan has neutral The the to ier demanded which he generally attitude newspapers verr government's Manchuria. but all the situation is virtually settled tem poratily. but some worry is felt for the futire, as it ix feared that Chan, Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang. leader o nal people’s army. may continue hostilities. MARINES of Known nd the LEAVE MANILA. Movement Not Made Officials. of American China, from movement view of to Marines is Manila. hut hus special the Chinese been made A company en route to whether the significance in cival warfare has not known by officials here Lacking official explanatory ad vices, it was believed the developments in China during the last two days have been watched closely by Wash ington authorities These included the reported capture on Thursday of Tientsin by the na tional people’s army and the killing vesterday of Gen. Kuo Sung-Ling and his wife by soldiers of Chang Tso-Lin, Manchurlan war loard. In the cap ture of Tientsin. the peaple’s army was said to have defeated troops of Gen. Li Ching-Ling. former governor of Chihli province. Met Rebel's Death. Kuo and his wife, captured in a cellar, where they hid after Kuns army was defeated Thursday by that of Marshal Chang met *a rebel's death. Gen. Kuo once commanded troops under Marshal Chang. but re volted and made war upon the Man churian. After capturing Kuo and his wife Jiers eut off the general's legs and the woman's arms, then shot both Later their heads were ered, and at the command of Gen Chang were placed on the grave of one of Chang's favorite generals, who had been killed by K Gen Probably, Going to Peking. Peking. it s thought. may be the destination of the Marines sailing from Manila, since they would not likely be needed at Tientsin, where the army has charge of American mili- tary activities. Admiral Clarence S Williams, commander of the Asiatic fleet, recently informed the Navy De partment that he planned to send de- strovers to Shanghai as relief units, and possibly the Marines will relieve others at Peking. Another development of more pa cific nature was reported to the State Department last night by Minister MacMurray, at Peking. The message related that fighting around Tientsin had lapsed to an extent of permitting resumption of international train service between that city and Peking and that commercial service also had resumed. MANILA. December 26 (£).—Six destroyers of the 43d Division departed from here for China today, carrving a company of Marines, Anoth company of Marins will leave for China tomorrow on the tranapert Chaumont.