Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. . (U S, Weather Bureau Forecast | Falr and not so cold tonight: low- o5t tempernture about 30 degrees; to- morrow, partly cloudy. Temperatures— Highest, 36, occurred at 4 pm, yesterday: lowest 0 a.m. today. Full report on paxe T The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. ew York Stock Market Closed Today 29,830. ch WASHINGTON, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. 98,113 TWO CENTS. BILLWIDENNGD.C HEADS POWERUPTO ik ... CONGRESS MONDAY th .|Chairmen Wil Introduce Country Shows Increase | Yy By 3 / i P The dead Dongia e oo el Measure in Both Houses at & Bvn & the obher Over 1924. / e I ; . | Session Reopening. ‘n‘l'h of the Hellman Bank 1 i Yesterday's Circulation, No. matter D. C. |JURY OF 12 WOMEN ASKS ] AUTO DEATH TOLL pst oftice PRINCES AND POOR ALIKE SHARE GLAD GOOLIDGE GREETING - “Happy New Year” Is Given 1. All at White House Portal in Colorful Affair. D. €, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1. 1926 -THIRTY-S1X PAGES. 1111 QI ) () Means Associated Press. | THREE FIREMEN KILLED | ANSWERING FALSE ALARM :Thn-,P Injured, One I;robmbly Fa- tally, When Truck Hits Auto and Turns Over in Street. LTI |l\\|\||ll\||\(_Nq"" "'lml U.S. PROSPERITY W | X | LIFE TERM FOR SLAYERS| | Chicago Gunmen Convicted s JMPINPASTYEAR tated Press NGELL Franta and surmen nvicted of By the Associated P Jany Anthon ind bank first-degr Court last night » the noose as the cecommended life ry 2d Kaspi ihbers, | murder hey ! jury of imprison Jan W wnd injured a = others result of : seriously fire truck answering # false alarm vomen muht to triad in he men were b ins of Tvatiic | conection with th Officer Wiley Foret | with Ar iienry PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION |} MARKED BY SPLENDOR i Sent Franta’s hrothel 1 (hiin ik e |CAPITAL ONE OF FEW CITIES WITH DECREASE teeth { knocked ou wped [ wit ward PASSAGE WILL EXPEDITE CTHER CITY LEGISLATION hurt to rresty passed Monduy Vivid Uniforms Lend Color !o; Scene to Newly Decorated | |5 Main Foyer. wrrying tion sal Expected to Promote Bet ing on Hill by Reliev- ing Small Details England, New York, Middle West and South. T0 REGAIN WEST -....... }Upwnrd Curve Notable in New | ter Fes In : of the tom was | [Rift in Agricultural Belt Has n lite preceding ye d by number the Asso from a ) the larger | NEWVERRREVELS of woth the moved i the New ot | s sincerity and | { BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. has made the | men an: Mgh and t through the White H Year rec of the lende t New Yeur cate Loosened Grip of President. ny of the « great metropolitan cen- | 1 the column of heavier fa- | of the small tr use « nuniber OFMATONGROERLY There. With Some Hip Flasks in Evidence. light incre: m spontaned | | In a group of representative Amert ption a na-| Another, the fourth, calendar vear|can cities, 40 reported a heavier death nal heirloom. han down from |in the presidency of vin Coolidge | tol} f sar just ended, while in | first administration seorge | finds him still strongly intrenched in; 20 the « list was approximately | hingto 18 preserved nd | public confidence. He is in almost the | the same ¢ smewhat lower. In al new + | exact middle of his executive y latter however, is two vears and five months sinee Qid not cover the enti President, assuming n will énd on M anoth d two months to sery o it not by for the Western | {5 0! avm revolt” over administration | oy ; icultural policies, it would be ecor-|at Cincinna that Calvin Coolidge en-) Cleveland 1% the zenith of his popu-|were noted at Columbus, Tol {lanta, Lowsville, Birnungnam, Bosto: like | Memphis, Uklatioma City, ‘Tulsa, Je v iy, trovidence,. Seattice and tland. Oreg Some Figures Lower. New York . 8t Louls and wsas CUy lutanrsy figgrves for the virtualyy we New York first 10 mo snobite ! JANUARY A, 1926, i od. | pumber o e the s vsson. AR CONPLES SCHOOL NANELIST: Local and Nationa! Flgures,f Mostly Dead. Selected for Future Use. A NEW xtat YORK became and, Chieage deuths evious lidge has AROL NO LONGER 1S HEIR T0 THRONE King Accents His Renunma-‘f tion and Asks People to Accept Grandson. Princes ot Fireworks Factory Blast. Princes and World, their m Jarts in the New organizations is American in the halis he Ariy Lill thetr 2 m 336 to 129 to 206, Incres LONDON )~ and | Wil et s Spur ey the rural W e industrial North. East and erwhelmingly pro-C the biinde: Republic pretends to ine Cory rons ¢ v, and then joyed yei timid P J the President is s strong th wishing the Presi resident & - I the country as he was at midy r Disaffectis sual holi big, the 21 neede main_entrar the United Na RECES S CA NSTRIE PARLEY “Mlners and Operators Enter ! New Year Far Apart in Agreements. rs figg on Farms. = Nothing i rations festc olumns and w as the colorful None of the orchestra_of rine Band, al jant uniforms of Each section of the slternately while Mrs Flashing U Within the Executive Mansfon, gath ered in the sparious st reom.and the past 26 ye: just half his life fover. both known and enfeared tol Wiy int knowing when to run up| iz v tourist that has pas through | | lightnigg rods. The readiness with | Bligtan, wers @ the mieIn- | which he decided within the past ers of the diplomatic wee the - admindstrat dors and Minist aat olt tricity again: ol fiashing uniforms of their ¢ 4 B i from the ! re har stecliing silver, gold and jevelstud | gctertatic of Calvin ¢ ok ded swords clin musieally thell' | His Democratic talking | o und merit | 4 houe Coolidge's “elimb. They | yot pillory his reversal of policy on farm surplus legislation as «n exhibiton ¢ “weakness” without many parallels nt White House history. the President’s frienc | Out steuction of Mr. | (o They look uy s y Fou if of his political | poo 2005 . and decres only 11 affection on the farm: n miscontent with ir 5 policies, has saj to a consider his “hoid pation sentiment degree. Nati ntry is sull firm, but it has ce strangle hold g ymy and Cooiidge ste to be the President's There 15 no inelin | House to view the the' Tar; 9B ghere York City in able the On eithe the Atios t school Tn the were §10 rpetuntc ory n in diness con Bup heet anchors. on at the White [We8Y Just puss ds ag; ituation through | hile'the 1 AELEe rose-tinted spectacles. AMr. Coolidge | 3% s O3 is worry-proof. ile 1s not easily| ths Decroase Her frightened by political bad weather.| i, WWashir But he hss nol been in tics fOF | from % te ervus fur other orms mnu- | schoul Uy of agricultur jons is wlidg enew | Inere jevery ir analyzed . Neither the Kin | mient of Rumania has * | lichten the pul e why Carol desire Y wania’s futun unication said t ses were tance because t ficlent ro the White the arn triotic Oldest Inh zens of ievolent drove cold winds away and made of | hig New of the finest in years Although even in House rvices ties, the decline | : unget o issue SRk merely tide t seems to wing disastrously in his direction They | admit that the farm situatlon is fu r the Republican party. | nounced that with pride—not shame Cool ¢ taacle « leader who, ol | he ! L before 1 X in trend of things nen w + > them in hammer-and- | hefore in order that badd | hefore fon may not drift umv' | Year day 4 mo: s il | nand had felt acquiesce and reque accept Prine sesin South. ' utls the Board of Edu-j smmendi Or 10 le: but Viry not | 1 efties in th the fatalit from his and the ets of hes only to the fuct thy and Queen Marie at ¢ his wi; venue gate icemen who New Year re predicted | uld ive th t rdinand ve given in ix large cit 5 toll Connecticut | increa. ing have hawd! ceptions for that the thr near to establ who arri o ente cars drive snothe: a worse one me | Too Judge Effect. Those !l politicians in both partfe: plenty ltoo early to judge whether not siump in his fortune by agricultu ire united in - bellevin Sident, fuced by the first in the lute of his popularity vigorously tn mend it sneral agreement in both camps that the farm unrest e deeply into things than the ter Government help in s. The anclent is involved. With ans r of Kansas, predicting th Byt five out of wunities in Michizan rep Followed by Rumors. Carol left Enz {tuneral of Downger Que e had been little in his nu Lring him into publici then w whisperin his seemin ne Ttalian v stion com: circles that Carol is t with the Rumanian its military prograr he 1 of harming Italian wo sen thcinl it is Cool- | ir the In the 1 | nounced n. I R. I | cester real rift will mov say Mr, arreste Since Providence, nd Wor . ith t Albany and Syracuse, N. and Springfeld. Mass. In the Far (Continued on lamn 1) ‘THREE TO SIX KILLED [/ IN ROADHOUSE FIRE [;:.."3x.. | wife, Princ { proceedings land Helen. No one has recounted the fuct that | g n seen since he visited » recently ment District regarding Gordon, former Announce Hosts. n. tons n diplom: it disagrec ernment Trumpets it was 1 ey cussed. * President and Mrs walked huiredly to the companied aides, wi and those who have Capital fr where the diplon zeneral « vere th cabinet v virt slomatie cor Riano v Gayan, King of Spa traordinary his staff w the procession of bril “iiplomats where the ¥ upreme | by Premier he | that settie the United s would bhe ting the ntry sment offer n of the joint cume in for last three duys west of eit the Bome side wa King conditions n, that no divorce | douig he o ed each vear during the | sioners nitable for pending between Carel | et period if found justified, | |unios high schoul, four s | “The operators presented arguments | the O street vocational a long term contract which would [ Mmust be named. nuity of production by | on List. oviding some form of arbitration to £, Sust wdiocks. The mine owners did not see feved it wi adjus onomic conditions might require the future. The miners opposed the Markle p on the ground that in the I it amounted to arbitration. John Greenleaf nd Margarvet Murr woker Washington ar on the list, as they alre een submit to the District the 1 naval -ntations cubinet National | stanch tions -l‘-“'i,\yllw” the budeet, |the farm bloc. 5 and the director frevision in the agricultu st | Reveler Says He Abandoned Wom- sn-American Uni nust come, O. P. managers concede 5 A . r an to Save Own Life—Janitor ived after the situation is urgent to the | t ity. It is not widely un-| Also Is Held. Athen: N Repu n as Apper lurgely attended. CHICAGO'S REVEL DAMP. Arrests hool, which | prompt admin « | Milun FIRE SWE"EPVS CAVE CITY. |a = e All Means of Communication With | Town Cut Off. Turin Act Mude Agents, by | the finane t may inig shoulder to arming \West In » s | By the its close financial al-| pRORIA, T hammering at! three and six persons attending an to effect al,jlnight New Year party were burn the outside | og ¢, th in a fire which destroyed c rendersd MoBE | the Bims, o readhouse, early BOWLING GREEN, Ky.. January lquidating €31 e potied reported. "11 (®.—All means of communication A4 States, both public Two men, one the janitor and the | with the outside world were destroyed other a New Year reveler, are being | early this morning by fire which swept held by the police. The latter is re. | over Cave City. razing the telephone | ported 1o have said that two women | exchange, Postal Telegraph office and i burned and that he 1 other buildings, causing dam 11 616, of tHE Borman 1o & i et unestimated, since full re it was forced to abandon her | ports from the scene of the disaster s lovn Do have not been obtained here. commi ion to such nd stror tavor of dly. practica Hon: wd his convietic s bill ¢ ot officials—Commis-| o T fnd | CHICAGO. January 1 (@) T avaactar | fant 1926 was eted by Persons of local or national dis.|and somewhat damp revel he tinction: Maj. Gen. I. I. Stevens, ' the efforts ot 100 Federal pr Archibald “White, Washington Irving, |#Sents posted in night I Nathaniel Hawthorne, Senator Tasker | With instructions to arres wndes Oddic, Louis P. Shoemaker, | woman caught drinking ir | Nathan Hale. John Marshall, Salmon | ts were made Portland Chase, lHenr Wadsworth | to the Volstead Longtellow, Jame: ell Lowell, | served, the enforcement Jliver Wendell Holmes, William Cul- | ported early len Bryant Whitcomb Riley 3 The in- | cheery despite hibition centers ny man or public. and no viol ct me entiment st demanding Europe, jliances in Ne ormed 1 Press . January l.—RBetween 1t at | Garrett J. in ssad 1 ntiary antly un the biue and Mrs. « zemu cpressed Indiv ber of the bas expre ssage of {thority of the Dis fis neéeded and will 1 .,‘}:u the Cit Washingt Senate Committee Favorable, entiment among members of Senate District committer able tc to th the bill. Indications are tee will lose no time i ion after it is The first secton of the (% bill would transfs power of appoint deeds, members Charities and members of of Education. In this connection there ing in the House a sep: viding for the election of ¥ the peaple, and s stated he i€ prep asure for introduetion n ittee st analysis n that the the at issic e cordiality rooof and laebts and 1 |15 Calvin € ar facing No Lynching Year in Texas SAN ANTONIO, Tex., January ). —Last night closed the first y since the Civil Wi which lynchings took <ide the bor- de T only three = State led the Na uber of mob slayings. ict Comr ner dge enters upou the tronbled domestic it can as faithf he prestige of his administra- the foreign res is higher hy previous time. new | horiz that i tion, than Avics United and the from Great diplomats in the ellow prohibition ad. ator, augmented his force of onts with men drafted from 1 forces. Undisguised. » corners and watched vockets or were |searched. No intoxi, were interfered with men. Unifory twoscore inebri revelers, lease those who had never rested before. Some Drinking Done. Federal and police authorities :tted that some drinking was done. much less than s Third is a new giant cactus flower- | . ome downtown hotels ing zinnia, a truly giant plant de-!those who wished to drink engaged veloped from a more familiar flower. | rooms in advance and stored their | Others are a new hybrid tritomas, | supplies there, plying between the |a new species of the torch lily, which,| rooms and_the dining rooms. in will bloom profusely In cold climates; | cabarets, drinkers watched thei a new and improved strain of the|chance and poured when the two popular Shasta daisy, much larger | agents assigned to each place were and more colorful than the present |looking elsewhsre. submitted it to him Shasta; a new strain of fluffy giant| Only one untoward incident marked | will place two propo: sters, and the perfection of eight plan of co-operation between | 0ds of selecting the schoal e 8 i the was favor order Sn ind Woodridge. Presidents of the United S (Continued on Page 4. Colum ks the commit it T the vimse United on the 1 horizon, Atic more em over it than is publicly ac But in every other di olidge zovernment's for- considered to stand very fades into history. tes— destroved hip on each the kdown of their apt Greek General Faces Trial. ATH January 1 (#).—The Eleftheros Typos, government new paper, announces that the militar: council has found Gen. Plastiras re- | TROTSKY REGAINS FULL el i STANDING WITH PARTY | oo e Xhictia i 622, e connen | decided, by seven votes to three, that | the general should be court-martialed dminis mission » them the wder of of Board due to bre: on rough ers judge and associa Court of Cus ustice and Court of Appeals of the District of Tnmbia, chief justice and the clate § C ind the triet of Col Burbank Presents Seven New Plants To World Today as New Year Offerinu:1 s eign stock been ar. | high as 1 Robbed of Lesdership. " ‘The President faces ¢ victory on his World Court proposal. He will { gy qne have no oppesit th mentioning, | 31 when he sanction An the is pend 1 pro 1tor feet tall and bears from S to 14 ears By the Associated P 3 to_each stalk, NTA ROSA, Calif,, January 1.— the completion of one of the | years in his half century of ! work in the laboratory of nature, Luther Burbank today presented to the world as a New Year gift a beau- tiful group of new flowers and plants. The plant wizard announced that during - just closed he had perfected seven major creations and improvemen Today he sent ‘to all | n e —Leon Trot- | c————————— | with PROSPERITY A. Ryko . Tehitcherin, M. Sokol- | | League of Nations dis nikoff, M. Tomw M. Bucharin and | In National Capital A complete and compre- he Coolidge-Mellon-Kellogg serle: , all members of the Russian hensive review of 1923 { Members of Congress, in the | bus st ed immediately by epresentatives in Con- an of Congress; Army, arine Corps of the commanding militia, the vice Senate. Senator Capper sald today, however, | that, although he fs drafting a bill for {the ‘election of the school board, he- | will introduce the Commissioners” bill ive them the appointing power ticipation in th ‘mament plans K f Soviet government. were re-elected i 5 ittee of the Communist par t | has faced Senator Borah for the first | Inittee sl St oy {time in the latter's capacity as chair- | the Party congress yesterday. George man of the foreign relations committee | Zinoviell, president of the party, also and and o itions down to the hey i hot been vanqu Under | ¥2s re-elected & member of the com- Coolidge leadership, the United States rendering powerful aid in saving China from herself. The President seems to sense a grow- and ‘neluding t colonel and con bureau chiefs rade of lieutenant wander. Next came | of the Government | The Society of the Cincinnati led the | T ¢ section for patriotic organizations, ing spirit among the American peopl "ot St & O] in the direction of world aid. Quietly, Var of ‘846 ¢ the Military Order estimate, Mr. Coolidge has pretty ef- the Luyas I on of the United St fectually robbed the Democrats of e Grutl Ainy oF the B leadership in international co-opera- Continued on Pag {4Copyrizht, 19250 mittee. The elections had twofold _signifi- cace—first, as indicating that Trotsky naw is restored to full standing in the executive body of the Communist party, and, second, that Zinovieff, | Kameneft and Sokolnikoff, despite their having led a minority movement against the “old guard” in the present convention, were considered too im- portant to be dropped from the high- est executive body of the party, ness in the Distric lumbia, by L. Seth and J. W. Millard. No business man, how ever large or small his busi- ness, or what his line, can afford to miss this. Tomor- row in The Evening Star chnitman of Cc i parts of the world which will ! bear these new cre After 26 years Mr. Burba camassia, | While the 1 known, the others in its multiply. From his rainbow corn Burbank has produced the rainbow teosinte, & marvelous plant that grows eight ¢ experimentation created a new blue flower. is not widely product excels all and abflity to new ifauty newly named gladioluses The noted naturalist begins the New Year in good health, and is look- ing forward to one of accomplish- ment. “I can say that 1 am satisfled with my vear's work.” he told wisitors at his experimental gardens, “for I must be satisfied. The year is done, and i has been one of my busiest. I have worked and enjoyed every day of it But I will go on with the New Yeax, ) the | P ‘f()l( the [t is pa | creasing the | stoners. Senat decisic questior committe on PO agents and hotel managers and caf proprietors. The house detective o a downtown hotel refused to admit two agents assigned 1o its restau- a ! rants. They could not find the man- | known the details of his ard of BEd ager to remind him of his promise | ucation bill. but he said it would differ to assist in enforcement lin some rospects from the Gasque lin the House nbers of the &ch board are now selecied by the ju | of the District Supreme Court l When 1r - (Continued on Page 5, Column 2) not made lRadio Programs—Page 32. A