Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. ' = (U. S. Weather Rureau Forecast.) From Press to Home heE il oo e Within the Hour” | erate northwest winds, The Star is delivered every evening and || . 'I'nm]xnx u‘n lh::h st, 34, at 4 g(n)n:vi:w morning ;o \\'u;hi gton homes at st Towes at § am. its per month. Telephone Main 500 WITH DAILY E_VENING EDITION No. 1.086— No. 20,839, Enieret as second cinss matter WASHINGTON, D. (., SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1926.—102 PAGLS. * P> Meana Amshointed|Press | FIVE CENTS. 1., PROSECUTION N SST RAMNING ASKED BY WILBUR Criminal and Civil Action| Against Line and Ship Officers Is Indicated. CITY OF ROME BLAMED ENTIRELY IN DISASTER Naval Conrt Finds Capf. Diehl Negligent Before and After Accident. ival comrt of in he ren inty on September of the subma 1 off Block 1 nd by the stea v of Rome the & h Line, was turned ove artment of Justice by Secretary Wilbur vesterday for lezal e court found that the submarine and sunk by the steame: s of 33 officers and men o vonlizht night. under circumstances which required the steamer to keep out of the way. Its findings of fact we nade public by the Navy Departm night. but 11 recommendations were withheld ceference of the entire ment of Justice. ment er depa E port arrived too late in th ‘ be vead, but it is understood cither criminal or civil actions, or both, are contemplated against the ean Steamship ( of Savannah 1., owner of the City of Rome uiticers of the steamer. and apt. John H Diehl, who was cap in of the steamer, and Third Mate mothy L. Drever, were pliced on ¢ trial at Boston last week hefore the Board of F boat Inspec 1 n charges of inattention to duty’| violation of the international rules for prevention of collisions, and it is understood that the Attorney General assigned a_district attorney to watch that proceding for the Department of Justice. The naval rey declared the s s sunk o'clock nigh ar « und observed by the City of Rome from a distance of & or 6 miles. The steamer, i added, failed to pro- vide and maintain an adequate look- ou The submarine was on a_ surface vailability enzine run at the time, and all of its officers were “fully qual- | ad to stand a deck watch,” the re- port said. Searchlight Failed. Within a minute after the collision he 851 sank. the report stated, while the Clry out on at of Rome put which picked up three sur- The steamer’s searchlight wrs said 1o have heen out of commis- <o little artificial light was avail- in the search. and an hour and twenty minutes after the collision she moceeded on her way to Boston with- marking the spot. and sending s of the disaster until after vive out no mes midnight. he night was clear. with stars and moon shining,” the report con- tinued. “Between 10:02 p.m. and 1016 pm. Carroll Hanson, guarter- master, at the wheel on the Cf of Rome, left the pilot house, with Third Officer Drever's permission, to 50 be- low, and Third Officer Drever, then alone in the pilot house, performed the dual duties of officer of the watch wnd helmsman until after the collision. | capt. Diehl was not in the pilot house when Hanson went below. “At 10203 pm., William the lookout on the City of Rome, ted a bright white light four points on her starboard bow, which | fie immediately reported to Third Officer Dreyer, then on watch in the pilot house. This report was acknowl- edgetl by Dreyer. This light, which later developed be on the S-31, was estimated by mson to be about five miles off Capt. Diehl esti- Ad when first sighted. mated five or six miles when he first | saw the light. Third Officer Drever 4 =aw this light about 30 seconds hefore it was reported to him by Adamson, the lookout “The light, when sighted, hore four points on the starboard bow of the City of Rome and this bearing re- mained constant until aceurred No danger of collision was deemed ta exist, and nothing was done to avoid collision by the officer of the vatch of the City of Rome between the time the white light 1:03 p.m. and the instant immediately preceding the blowing of the first whistle signal —which was about 10.23 notwithstanding the fact that m Niring this interval of 20 minutes the White light had heen visible at all times, the beaving of the light had not changed, the light had increased in intensity. and the distance of the | ed from five or six six hundred feet. 1@ respective courses of the City of Rome and of the S-51 places this collision under the eclassification of | crossing vessels covered by the Rules | of the Rtoad. The $51 was on the Sarboard side of the Uity of Rome (ontinued on Page 5, Column 4.) THAW DENIES INTENTION OF GOING TO SEE EX-WIFE No Chance of Reconciliation, He Declares—Visited New York to Consult Physician. Br the Associsted Press 3W YORK, January is not going to Chicago to see esbit Thaw, Tha his former wife, Evelyn > who Is recovering from an attempt to commit suicide, he said tonight at his hotel. He dented reports of a reconciliation. He came to New York to see his own physiclan, he sald, adding that Jie intends to leave for Pittsburgh frnight or tomorrow to see his mother, who is ill there. ‘I never had any intention of going Chicago to see Evelyn,” Thaw de- clared. “I'm going to keep on send ing her money, of course—the regular (, $10 a day—but anything else out of the question.” Ile visited a revue | Jast night with ‘'marvied friends. and Juter went to a n t club. its white light had been visible | one | the collision | was sighted | V - points on the starboard bow at ITIDAL WAVE SUCKS HARBOR DRY, HURLS 50 BOAT ON MAINE SHORE Fishermen Flee Onrushing Waters on Cove Bottom | Amid Crash of Falling Ice Cakes—Phe- nomenon Local in Character. By the Assoriated Press SOUTHWEST HARBOR. Me., Jan 9.—The inhabitants of the little village of Bernard, three miles from | uary in steadily like the even flow of a river. Then came two lesser ones, and in less than 10 minutes the whole harbor was filled to near high-water mark. Great whirlpools were formed. here, experienced thefr first tidal| Small hoats were tossed about at their wave today. Unexplained in its orlgin, [ moorings and the 70foot fishing the phenomenon which occurred about | Smack Fish Hawk broke from her noon, caused the sudden emptving of | lines at the Underwood dock and Rass Harbor followed a minute later hed against thespliings. The en By & 10 2hot Fish of water and then harhor was a mass of foam. N ! oL " W left the harbor so | two smaller waves. No one was in- | rapidiy th Galer Rl an Ereated jured, but about 50 fishing honts were | at the harbor mouth. In less than | hurled ashore and two men in a ! 15 minutes it was all over.” | dory had a narrow escape from fall-| The chief mennce to fishermen was | ing cakes of ice when thefr craft sud the tumbling of ice ¢Akes to the hot {tom of the harbe Chester Nawyer NEW AT DOOR F KNG INOSHCE COUNTRY iSecond Charge Brought Against W. K. Hale by Fed- | eral Grand Jury. | FORMER FIRED FATAL | SHOT, EVIDENCE HINTS Is Also Indicted—Both Under Ar- rest—17 Slayings Now Being Probed. By the Associated Press GUTHRIE, Okla., denly grounded. ™ and rest Al were anchored in! wanhe first sixn of something WIONS | iheir dory near Parker's wharf when | D s e mrection ot fithe water W sne from beneath | the ha 'whspeople ran 1o the | them and the dory went aground | piers to see their harbor emptied with | They r for shore, dodging the crash- | | & rush. | ing_ice William Kelley, who has a fich No ot Iy of water in this re packing plant on the eastern f | gion was ted by the phenomenon ;vhn harbor. told what happened next. | DUt in Vinal Haven il e “It was about low tide when St wave came.” he Sald e ihe ng southwest of «ontinu 5, Column 1) | TAXBILL TO DRIVE - COURT ISSUE FROM 'Vote on Latter Before Feb- ' ruary Now Regarded as ‘ Nearly Impossible. | == BY (. GOULD LINCOLN. 4 vote on the Worlk Jtocol prior to the consider tion of and passage by the e of | the reduction bill—if there was ever such a chince—seemed last night to have gone a-glimmering. Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman | of the Senate finance committee, hopes | ave the tax bill ready for report to ‘enate by Thursday and to have it take® up for debate by Monday of next week. Failing this, he expects | that the bill certainly will be ready | by Monday, January 15, and that it may be up for consideration a day or | two later. | of the pro-court Senators to hold up | the consideration of the tax-reduction | bill until a vote can be had on the | court, Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, in charge of the protocol, said. However, Senator Lenroot | prompt action on the tax bill in the | Senate. and its passage in that body certainly by the middle of February Then he will press again for action on | the World Court ‘The debate on the World Court was delayed three days last week by the | consideration of the case of Gerald I’ Nye, appointed Senator from North Dakota, whose right to be seated has been challenged. The Nve case will occupy part if not all of the session of the Senate tomorrow, and on Tues ! day there.is agreement to further the nomination of Judge Wal lace McCamant of Oregon, under at |tack by Senator Hiram Johnson. Under such circumstances, it appears | that the opponents of the World Court | will have no difficulty in shutting off | debate on the court until the tax bill | 13 taken up. The proponents of the court, how- ever, are not discouraged by this pros They insist that they have the | pect. votes for ratification and that a vote Adamson, | will certainly be reached at a com- | paratively early date. Klan Against Entry. While it _has Ku Klux Klan a herence tc from =z appeared Senators re tively is opposing ad entirelv different source als: yesterday yme of the United States adhere to the court. Speeches for and against the court [ were made late vesterday afterhoon Montana Missour: Republican. relating to the court, clearly showed | his opposition to American adherence | pounded to the Senate. It has been | expected for sometime, however, by supporters of the court that Senator lliams would be found against the protocol when the show down comes. Yesterday Judge Daniel F. of New York. who had charg: renomination last Fall, conferred with a number of Senators, States into the court, means of building up the opposition. Walsh Answers Critics. Senator Walsh's | Senate was Mis third the court. e answi address to in support d_many by opponents of the court to bunal. He pointed out that times Joined with | Nations to launch needed reforms and that the President has just a | cepted an invitation from the leagu conference on lminary armaments. SENATE CALENDAR There is no disposition on the part | expects | consider 1ow developed that the the World Court, opposition eived copies of the Hiber- nian, attacking the proposal that the in the Senate by Senator Walsh of and by Senator Williams of Senator Wil- liams, while declaring his desire for “light” in regard to several matters in a series of grestions which he pro- voting Cohalan of the campaign of former Mayor Hylan for voicing his opposition to the entry of the United and seeking the or of the objections which have been made the entry of the United States in the tri- the United States Government has several | P . of | to send Americun delegates to a pre- | limitation of | He criticised the position of those who held that this country Bottles Piled Up inDryRaids;Rock Crusher Is Sought W unry 9.—The destruction of seized liquor has sumed such masnitnde in New York that the Prohibition Depart- ment was petitioned todav for rock crusher to smash contra hand bottles he e from Capt Frederick k. by, customs serv- fce officer. who said that at the 34 Army base in Brooklyn last vear he directed the destruction of 158,086 cases of liquor and 180, 594 bottles that were not in cases. One Federal judge recently signed an order directing the destruction of 968,000 bottles of liquor now in Kirby's custody. CHILD, 7, ON SLED, - KILLED BY HEARSE {Edna Proudfoot, Pushed by Playmate, Goes Under Rear | Wheel of Vehicle. | A laughing little red-cheeked girl, 7 vears old. gleefully swooped down a white blanketed embankment on her sled at Second and G streets north- east late vesterday afternoon to be crushed to death at the curbing by the rear wheel of an undertaker's motor hearse. | The name of Edna Proudfoot. of Second street northeast, therefore is | being printed today as the first vie by the same newspapers which re counted the tragic death of her father, Frederick O. Proudfoot, a carpenter, whose death from a fall from a scaf- fold several months ago left his widow and eight children in destitute cir- cumstances. Coasting Down Terraces. At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon Edna Proudfoot, her face flushed with exertion, was coasting down terraces near the intersection of Second and G streets northeast, generally stop ping as the sled swung across the pavement and into the street. Up the street came a tractor. Be- hind it came John H. Compton, 25, of 305 East Capitol street, driving a hearse, owned by the Zurhorst under- taking establishment. The tractor stalled. The hearse stopped. Meanwhile, at the top of the em- bankment Edna waited on her sled for another slide down. One of the voungsters gave Edna a push. The sled swung over the edge of the in cline of the terrace, and slowly started down. It gained momentum. ton decided to reverse his vehicle to get around the tractor. hearse moved backward. Swiftly came the girl down the incline, and under the rear wheel. It passed over henghead. Dies on Way to Hospital. ‘They took Edna to Casualty Hos- pital in the hearse which killed her but she was dead before the hospital was reached. Compton, the driver, s 25 years old. Only a few weeks ago, a baby—the first—came to his family. He was talk. He was taken to the ninth precinct to be held pending the action of the coroner, and Capt. Lucian H. Van Doren, his attorney, obtalned his release pending the coroner’s in quest tomorrow. All he said was: “T know what it means, For I've just gotten a little baby out house recently.” AVIATOR FORCED DOWN Norwegian Fails in First Attempt tim of a sledding fatality this Winter | Comp- | Slowly the | dazed by the tragedy and could hardly | IN ARCTIC SNOWSTORM | —Harry K. | should have nothing to do with the World Court because its establish- to Reach Spitsbergen Through of the league. Darkness. faintly marked trails followed, y killer who slew Barney McBride has ment was provided for in the covenant never been found. [ { night fae |of the Osage country of Oklahoma | The ond charge was brought today by the United States grand jury here, which is investigating \leged conspiracy againsi weaithy Osages which is held responsible for {the deaths of 17 persons | The grand jury rged complicity in the death of Her killed in Jan is Hale with in Osag i 100 life inst le pavable 1o Ha a suit to vollect it URDER LAID | i LisTen UNCLE UNCLE. ITS AN AWFUL CHANCE B%esd YOU'RE 'Snowfall 19 Inches Deep in ! with Hale in connection i\u(h Roan‘s death was John Ramsey, | i cowboy-farmer Hving 3 miles | from Fairfax, Okla msey was ir | rested st night a his home and brought to Guthrie td i Hale was already in jail here. Fifty-three other indictments were | returned by the jury in its first re- | port work Monday. [ The others were not made pubit but it was indicated that most of them were in connection with liquor offenses and other matters not re- lated to the Osage conspiracy inqu The jury ssed until Monday Ramsay Accused of Killing. Ramsay was chareed in the indict- {ment with the actual shooting of ! Henry Roan. Hale is named as an | accessory before the tact, und is al {leged to have hired Ramsay to do the shooting. Roan’s since it hegan rec bullet-plerced body was found in a pasture several days after | he disappeared. The fact that he died on Indian land gives the Government jurisdiction to lodge a murder charge. Government attorneys explained that the nature of the indictment as well as Ramsay and that both will | be prosecuted for first degree murder. | Ramsay is a white man about 3 | vears old. He is married and has six Children ALLI 7 RE McBRIDE CAS Indian Slaying Plot Revives Capital Murder Mystery. | kil members of the Osage Indian tribe in Oklahoma {more to the fore one of the most in Washington, the killing of ney cBride, white husband of a wealthy Osage squaw, who was stabbed to { six miles from the District line,” three | vears ago. | ™ “Although police at first ascribed the murder to robbers, subsequent discov leries have indicated that McBride, whose home was in Tulsa, wi marked man the day he left {homa, and that his end had been carefully planned by Indians that ecity. Police are now wondering whether or not the killing might be traced to the band that virtually car- | ried out a massacre among the Osages | betore it was discovered. McBride, it is believed, was of pure { white stock. He married, however, |a woman of the Osage Nation named Deer. She was extremely wealthy and McBride was rich in his own name. When Mrs. McBride died, she |left her entire fortune to a daughter iby a previous marriage, Ellen Deer, who was attending a select finishing school here. The property was said to be worth at least half a million dollars. For some reason that is still un- explained, it became known that Mc- Bride feared unscrupulous persons were trying to obtain control of the girl's money and he came to Wash- ington to turn the eatire property over to the Indlan Burvau of the De- partment of the Interior in trust. Two days after he came to Washington, McBride was found dead, with 21 stab wounds in his neck. But the imurderers were too late If thev | spught Ellen Deer's property. Me- | Bride had already turnad it over to the Indian Bureau. Records disclosed thst the girl's whole family had met untimely and viplent deaths, none of which was ever solved. Her father and uncle were shot to death on the same day nd their slayers were mever found. Other relatives met similar fates and, finally, her stepfather, or an errand in her interests, fell under the knife of an assassin. Although many clues have been hunted down and many the makes Hale a principal in the charge | Northern New Hampshire. Gales on Atlantic. By the As j Press IW YORK 2 —Eig were killedl, five in New York January p three in Massachusetts, and at five persons were seriously hur the Northeastern States as of today's storm over a wide area and was ac \mpanied by a 35mile gale off the coast which | '\g-vx drove four barges ashore Starting in Florida Wednesday which brought snow | STORMTAKES TOLL ™" OF EIGHT N EAST ART ONE—10 PAG of the Clubs PART THRE Pages 14 and 1 i—12 PAGES. night, the sterin moved stead’ly north- | Rz e ward to southern New Encland and | 47 Esements ERsRicrsanl leieh also spread westward to Ohio, Inai-| yiisio in Washington—Page 5 | #na and southern Michizan now | Rioters and Malring.—Puges: 6 fell in those three S 5 well 4 and in New York. New Jersey, Penns ternal News—Pages 10 and 11 vanta, the mountan secticn of Vir-| PART [FOGR— PAGES: ginin and in southern New England.] 28 1 sl The fall variéd from «wo inches in | Fink Sports Section. New York City to 19 inches else PART FIVE—S PAGES { witere in the sjorm are ine Section+-Fiction and Fea Gales at Sea Wreck Bargze 1res E e gansele uble fot PART SIN—10 PAGEN ¢craft off the Atantic Coast fal €l led Advertising | Guard officials reporiel that the | (o tertlyine: Al Yarge T J. Hopper, owned byl the| Jeterans of the Greai War—Page | actern Transportation Co, of {Wil. | At the Community Centers—Page 10. | mington. Del. was poanted 1o pieces | GRAPHIC SECTION—S PAGES. | after grounding on a sandbar between | (AT o | oyt | Highlands Beach and Spermacetd orl vents in Pictures. fiGovei: 7. _rhivee men were rappel | (OMIC SECTION—1 PAGES. |l o Ry | Betty: Reg'lar Fellers: Mr. and Mrs.; | | from their tug. The sco Mutt and Jeff. | Discovery of the amazing plot to| has brought once | puzzling unsolved murder mysterles |y b aeq by snov ! death on a lonely road in Maryland, | Okla- | from | “Our Government,” said Senator o By the Associated Press. Walsh, "has just accepted the invita- tion of the league to participate in the preliminarfes looking to a world { conference on the reduction of arma- ments. How could it do otherwise? It could not brave outraged public |sion, a flying boat owned and plloted opinion at home or abroad by refus-: by Lieut. Eliassen of the Norwegian |ing to attend. A delegation, headed | navy, hopped off from Horten this | by a distinguished ex-member of this morning. A snowstorm, however, | body, now serving in the House, by | forced the aviator down 70 kilometers regular appointment represented the | northwest of Liplehammer. The United States, upon invitation of the | journey will be continued when the league. in a conference assembled at | \weather clears. | its call last Summer, at which was| The flight is considered especially drafted a convention for the super-|hazardous because darkness prevails vision of international trade in arms and night north of the Arctic OSLO, Norway, January 9.—In a daring attempt to demonstrate the possibility of fiying in Winter to Spitzbergen, Norway's Arctic posses- | | | | Index to Classified Adveytising For the convenience of our readers, an alphabetical in- dex of classified advertise- ments appears on first page of classified section. The page and column of each Sification is given, making possible to locate at once the ] advertising in which you are interested, | and ammunition and in implements | circle at this season. | of war. . Lieut. Eliassen plans a flight to | i [ O country was officially_repre- | e North Pole, starting from Nova I (@ontinued on 1% 5, Column 2) Zembia, north of Russia. L | washed ashore off Sandy Hook. Coast Guard hoats stood by Three men wore killed on Staten Island when their autorobile skidded and overturned. At Chicopee, M: two motorists, were instantly killed when their automobile was struck at { @ ralroad crossing. Returning from a trip with basket ball team, four students of Canisius College, Buffalo, were in jured, two probably fatally, when their | automobtie skidded and struck a tree at North Chill, near Rochester. Bargeman Drowned. their | capt | board from loose from a Hart's Island his| barge when it broke string_of barges near ast River. H was later recov William Conrors lost his footing while working on the iroof of a warehouse in South street, Maznhattan, and was killed when he fell through a skylight. | THREE DIE IN NEW ENGLAND. £ Maximum Snowfall Is 19 Inches in New Hampshire. January 9 ). —New Engz- land was visited by a snow storm to- day, the maximura snowfall being 19 inches, reported yrom Whitefleld, ia northern New Harapshire. At Boston the fall was five inches The snow brought three deaths in Massachusetts. Two men were killec in Chicopee when their automobile was hif by a train they had failed to see throtigh the snow, and a Boston ele- vated trackman wax killed by a train in Charlestown. Twelve automobi drifts and abandone; Vermont. Portland, Me., reported four inches of gnow and Lewiston sever. DUNLi-:AVY FACES TRIAL. Man Accused by Nisce Returned to Answer Kidnaping Charge. CHICAGO, January 9 (®).—John Dunleavy, 65, whose ar-old niece accused him of abducting her and holding her prisoner here for over a year, was returned to Manchester, Iowa, tenight, to face charges of kidnaping. His niece, Elsie, and her father, Patrick Dunleavy, returned home last night. The girl took her 5-month-old baby, whose father she says is her | uncle. CYCLONE IN TAHITI. Many Killed, Damage Great in ‘Windstorm, Message Says. PARIS, January 9 (®).—A message received today from Papette, Island of | Tahiti, says the Island was visited by a cyclone on Janutry 3. Many per- sons were killed or injured, and the reports are that the material damage was heavy. Tahitl 18 one of the sroup of Pacific islands known as the Society Islands. s were stuck in Nick Russo was swept over near Woodsville | | 300 REPORTED DEAD | IN MEXICAN FLOOD;‘ Seven Small Villages Along Ssn-f tiago River Practically | ‘Wiped Out. January and flood waters | Mex., after one of the most disastrous floods in its histary. Special dis patches received here indicate that of life would reach 300 persons and property loss is estimated at be tween 3,000,000 and 5,000.000 pesos. Seven small villages along the Santia- | %o River were virtually wiped out, and thousands of acres of fertile farm lands were inundated. | Radio communication was estab. | lished between here and San Blas late today, and it was reported that dam age was not heavy there. and that no lives had been lost. Skating on Pool Barred. | Skating will not be permitted on the | Reflection Pool today, it wts an nounced at the office of public bufld- ings and public parks of the National Capital last night. The snow covering, has made the ice unsuitable for this sport, and it cannol be ascertained where the weak places might be. VS ST RUSEVELT SHRNE | ter, however, now 11S-MEXICAN CRISIS HANGS ON STAND CF CALLES AND COURTS Intervention by President or Decision Voiding Retroac- i | tive Law Last Hopes. |AMERICAN INVESTMENTS WILL BE PROTECTED | iTo:a. Is Set at $500.000,000—01- ficials Still Hope to Avoud Recalling of Envoy SITE IS UNCERTAIN - Congress Group to Oppose Basin Location on Ground of Great Expense. BY WILLIAM 1. WHEATLEY 0,000 or § a¥ in order to w Th with) e memorial discussions House an the plan authorizing the Memorial tion to go ahea with the e prepared by John P * New York ers of the joint com " ary of the H +nd which now has char he admirers o fa and want to see him eless indicate a thoroughly memarial i must erect the what is now the Tidal Basin study to the proposition een ziven by individ it it has not heen taken up in cc Action Is Deferred. Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, chairman of Senate committee on Library, said no action had been taken on the matter since the § were presented to Congress and t e | would be unless there was a special request consideration, as it is not the policy of the committee to take up such projects unle: matter i pressed by those inters i them, |tha o far, no h request has been -mibilssador made, _be ave The whole matter, however. loathe to have been a victim of mis vith Mexi lelieved nding since it was presented i No legislation been authorizing the begin the work of dedicating the The introduction of a bill, of cou is necessary to start the machins moy James I site. Garfield, 7 1 Associa on Senator Pepper of Pennsyiv last week in the interest of the proj that ect. It developed then that the me thas morial as had be.|Doth the lieved that the mei bn thef Sum acs way and those in C terested | COUIS th pending a test were awaiting some move on the part of the association ls. This mat is being corrected and the legisiative council of the Sen- ate, which draws up such measures, is working on a bill. Mr. Garfield has gone to Europe, however, znd it is not kpown when the matter will ality. The con a provision as: plication of laws it. and the M already has he that arti roactive effect Manuel C. Te! be taken up. | bassador here Cost To Be Heavy. that a satisfactory und would be reached. The “hest One of the principal problems which | of Mexico.” he said, were w will be thrashed out when the matter reaches a_hearing is the cost of pre- | the framing of the reg | under which the two ac “ DRESS NO FACTOR IN MORALITY. RUPERT HUGHES TELLS WOMEN Novelist and Playwright Says Latter Worse Than Today’s. ! _Speaking before an enthusiastic au- dience that packed the dining hall of the Women's City Club last night and overflowed into the two adjoining rooms, Rupert Hughes, novelist and playwright, bitterly criticized present- day reformers advocating moderation in women's dress, characterizing them as “hopeless fools,” and evidently en- joying himself tmmensely. “It is a waste of time to make laws governing women's dress,” he said, “for no body of lawmakers ever agreed upon them and no one ever found women pure in any costume. Women only laugh at the efforts of the lawmakers,” he said. “I have heard and read many spiels urging a return to the old days of Puritan morality,” he said, “but the morals of young people in the Puritan days were far below the standards in | Addresses Women’s City Club—Assails Reformers and Puritan Code. fe paring the foundation for the me- | forced morial, which, as explained, will re- | 5 . . quire almo: rebuilding of the pres- | Expects to Find Solution. (Continued on Page 5, Column 6,) | Mexico has recognized the mpo lance in its relations with the Unite | States of the 3 aid the amba etation @ understandings |of course, diffe t | ried through in exe vo mixed claims conventions ew out of the 1923 n ere has never be whic! she would not cc commitments ma any other matter within the | ments. “Regarding the filing of represen | tions with the Me: government | there is of course a ference betwee | formal protest for any act which ma: Police even our fastest society today. records show that they were fouler than our foulest today. It was Do uncommon thing in those days for girls to rush down the aisles of a church, stark naked in their religious ferver, to dispute the statements of a Puritan preacher,” he said. “Why not go all the way.” he said, ‘and admit that costume has nothing to_do with morality?" Mr. Hughes went back into history to prove his theories. “Two hundred and fifty years azo women were brazen creatures if they showed their bare faces in some localities. A hun- dred years later men gasped if they | saw a woman's heel and 50 years ago if a woman exposed her ankle she was considered immoral and net fit to mingle in polite society. All this goes toward convincing me that the presentday complaints are but passing fads and causes me to won (Continued on Page 5, Column 5.) have been committed, and a record of a difference of opinion over matter. !in process of being carried out. 1In the matter of the petroleum and lan | 1aws, it is to be remembered that th {laws became finally effective onl when the executive decrees regulating them are pronounced. The best minds lof Mexico now are working upon those regulations and they may expected at the earliest moment to be { compatable with sound statesmanship the Mexican government will n sue hurried regulations b have the finished regulatio {as soon as possible. refgn M formal announcement suring the public that enz has mads the press as WS as reg the ulated will_be friendly to existinz property rights in Mexico. The right of foreigners are defended by provi sione of the Mexican constitution, and the present laws naturally cannot vl iate those rights.’