Evening Star Newspaper, January 16, 1926, Page 16

STORM-BEATEN EACGLE 1S CAPTURED. James R. Gillen of Ambler. with the American golden eagle which he caught at Fort Washington, fter the bird bad been battered by a Winter storm. The eagle ha ad of six feet and r inches. Wide World Photo Pa wing <pri ¢ A 3 >, > WHERE NINETY-ONE WERE KILLED IN MINE DISASTER. Photogr takes at the Degan-McConnell mine at Wilburton, Okl ing for the rescuers to reach the scene. One hundred and five miners were are reported killed. JURISTS DISPUTE CHANGES IN GODE Question of Foreign Rights | Leads to Debate at Ses- sions in Geneva. |Indian Woman Gelsl $1,200 a Day From | SmaHMf Land? IN [}AB'NET PLANS‘Composer “Sounds Barbaric Yawp™ i veral fferson, years ago a member Mrs. Father 3 of the Sac | and Fox tribe of Indlans, was given a small piecs of land in | Oklahoma. a poor plece considered from an agricultural standpoint Today Mrs. Jefferson has an come of $1,200 a day from royal- | ties received from several | Aucing oil wells on the poor piece | of 1and she was given. Her in o KadaciGa By come is the largest of any Indian | e e £ ksl in the United States, the Interior Department said today duel. friendly but lively, marked ves- AItliough ofl was discovered: only terday’s private session of the Com-| 3 ("8“6‘ hmnnnw rsn. a 'Iomld of . $73.48% has already accumulated to | I 18te, Mhn; her credit. | ure engaged In progressive codifica- ton of law. .. It reached o where Jose Suarez, entine opposing George W Attorney. Gener January wordy mission of ational Ju even | { 'WRITING HARD WORK, NOVELIST ASSERTS | } international point jurist by the thesis Wicker- fof thel 1 rofounded <ham, former United States. and French and British | jurists, declaved that i ceptance : R ; A be santamount an impodng. » | A Hamilton Gibbs. Speaking Here, system of itnTations ¢ tries | Which were trom su ems. | The discussion repor by Dr. Guerrero . on the question rspon States for izners or i their p held that in point | ing should 1 ense atijon 1 an ising his anthority ci harmful hould not | preci foreigner | Schor Says Application, Not Inspira- tion, Is Needed. dam to = . = The Human Side of Writ A. Ham and | Deris rrero ntional Jaw framed in e cmploy this was ziven hy of “Soundi small but ap at Central High | nnd the auspi urts of the'f of tne Washington Societv of Fine | | Arts. Mr. Gibbs. who is the brother | | of hoth Sir Philip Gibbs and Cosmo | | Humillon ta non de plume). comesof a | {n countries exist] gistinctly lterary family. His father, | < could not Bive cOn-f oy Gibbs, was well known as a 1 e systenn, the fwriter and author l h and British jur Somehow. in thinking of such writ opposed this concey {ers as Shakespeare and Dant, it has| 3 to link the words | n accord inspiration’ with thelr | bhecome customary enius’ and % ic opin- ) piee,t sald My, Gibbs, “vet T am | entiment in 180} g0 1hat not a single page of Shakes. ‘ Americr and alSo e, e'e simplest appearing sonnet was | written that it was net covered with | crossed-out words, corrections and | changes. Tt is o general idea that | Dante went around mooning over a | snecific Beatrice and incidegtally wrote | without distinction Letween nationals | the ‘Divine Comedy:’ As 3 matter of snd forei Only when dimages| e, Dante married to another Tesulted direct nti-lorelSN |jady’ and had s=veral children before | ment. he ins thould the | pe “completed that werk. which took he held responsibie {or harm | him many years of real labor to write. to foreigners | tn short, T believe that it comes nearer [ the truth in the case of every writer. | specially the test of them all, fo | We accord to foreigners the saume | substitufe for “zenius’ and ‘inspiration’ | vight as to nationa declared Senor | the words ‘hard work' and ‘concentra- | suarez, and this i= proved by lhfl}linxl." well being which fo M. But indemnities. | three anik hefe ne e other works o (he o ve last e forei av he held 1 could sc country n 1teelinz where for fidence in Americar vizorously when th in the nizht r Opposit ions, seno with fon and the conntries in Mexico. i ' el rinein ng South Stats pers. He claimed tha were responsible should be to its inhabit Trom me ted State ha \ccorded Same Rizhts. Giths himself the author nf‘ novels and many short stories natio] must be ed on and articles, dwelt at me length of equatity with foreigners upan the absolute necessity for con problem. which involves the!centration In his remarks along of Amevicans in countries like | this line he told amusing anecdotes | and [tussiz, eventually was|of the ways in which such writers :m1 Jett_over for further study. | Gilbert K. Chesterton, Samuel Hop- The commitiee, however. accepted ins Adams_ Samuel Merwin. W. J. Pr. Guerrera's conclusions on two i Locke and E. Phillips Oppenheim ar- other important points. One. raised | ranged their working hours and the | e the murder of Italian officers in | various methods of concentration em- Creece. which resulted in the Corfu|ployed by them. | sffaiv, was that States are not re-| The only mention of any technical- -ponsible for political crimes com-| ity connected with the actual work of | mitted within thelr borders if they|writing a novel was Mr. Gibbs' re-| have taken sufficient precautions to|marks on the subject of choice of| nrevent these crimes. The other was| words,” and the reading by him of a| that States are not responsible for!|ecouple of paragraphs written by C. acts committed by thefr functionaries| E. Montague in his book “Disenchant. | when the emploves are agtinz “tri=tly ment.” which Mr. Gibhs considers an within the scope of thefr Guties, excellent poce of writing. sperity eizners enjoy ax 1 Jeoting he | mind unaltes: ot | ident von Hindenburz | her cas THE EVENING STAR. WAR-TIME BA’ reanion and d of the 2id Division and now of G aph, sent to Washington by telephone, . showing relatives and friends of the lost miners wait- imprisoned in the mine and 91 Photo by Acme. LUTHER IS HALTED Resignations From Present German Ministry Serve to Block Negotiations. B the. Askastated) Pross BERLIN, January 16.—Dr. Luther has been held up in his negotiations to complete a new cahinet by the de- clsion of Dr. Otto Gessler to relin- | quish the post of minister of defense, which he has held under seven chan- cellors. Count Kanitz, controller and minister of agriculture in the Luther cabinet. which recently food resigned { also requested that he be relieved of | poems as captions. in the who was a the post and of further servic new cabinet. The count. non-partisun minister, informed Luther that the job was too g1 stead, p ally and physic Deserted by his own party weary with incessant radical lings. Gessler today notitied ch had made up his o join ihe new en the persunasion of Pry afled to move at a and heck- cabinet him Dr. Gessler held office continuous since 1920 as a non-parti ister. His-continuance in office was desired hi the Pre: it, but by the political leaders, who were anxious that his long service as civilian min- ister of defense should be conserved for the benefii of the new govern- ment. “Ther: i movems it on foot, now that he has withdrawn. in favor of linking up the defense portfolio with the office of chancellor, in the person of -Dr. Luther. neellor is not attached o anv party, therefore he is considered sccentalble to the Reichs- tag factions gencrally. the des - ing to keep the defense minist side the range of party pol {WOMAN WHO -THREW ACID AGAIN IS FACING COURT Was Convicted of Assault on Hus- band, Sentenced, Freed, Now Up for Rehearing. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO. January 16— Mrs. Grace Bernice Day, convicted in Los Angeles of throwing acid in the face of her husband. Darby Day. jr. son of a Chicago telephone official, vesterday came within the jeopardy of the ifornia’ courts again when e was ordered reopened by the State Supreme Court. The Appellate Court, # lower tribunal.. had freed Mrs. Day when her conviction by-the Superior Court was reversed on tech- nical grounds. The Supreme Court vesterday granted a rehearing of the appeal and took jurisdiction from the Appellate Court, on application of the prosecuting attorney and the State at- torney genera Mrs. Day was sentenced to from re in vrison after her con- the Supevior Court. TLE FLAGS IN er at the Roosevelt He el tonight. The ph has | Dr. | the | el A PEAC tograph show F. B. Maloue ( vernors Island, by Gen, s the ceremony of turniog over the fla right. who hdd eharge of Mg colo in the tri Battle scarred World Warfags of the 2nd Division in New York for the annual s to Maj. B. M. Bailey. formerly from Texas. Copyright by P. & A Photos At the end of the long trail. Mrs. Beatrice Tyler. who walked from Sante Fe. New Mexico, to Washing- ton. a distance of more than 2600 miles. She is a sister of Ena Pettin- gill. well known capital swimmer. W, ot IFOLK SO GS, TUNES OF THE irst and exclusive photograph of Mellie Burkhart, central figure in the Osage Indian murder ring of Ollahoma, Her hushand, Ernest Burkhart, is under indictment as alleged leader of the conspiracy to off Mellie's rich Indian rela- Photo by Acme. >0s AND JAZZ UNITED IN SYMPHONY ment, Goes to Kentuck y for Second and Takes Last From Cabarets of Tonight. By CHICAGO, | ph hi the Associated 15 American ~tunes, a coliection vorld. from m the zen- Tanuars A sm of purely the composer calls of features from the j Kentucky folk melod faded popular ballads o ecith Inown | compozed fter Walt Whitman. | ““Whitman was the American noet to ‘zet’ the raw material of our | distinctive culture,” said the compo {in explaininz the name of his svm- {phony. the three movements of which quotations from Whitman's which is titled {carry | “1 sound my. barbaric |de Lamarter felt pertinent to- a “sonatr form™ movement, which ha for its chief fune the vensrable “Gri yawp,” 'Mr. | thie ““Bar a musical | Its complement v Coast’ some vearsazo ir show. “A Modern Kve." is a classic from the | horsehair furniture era. “The Honey |Suckle and the Bee." which the { composer says, “It's a swell tune, even et. ‘ ‘The n r "w* movement ‘of the sym: phony is based upon four Kentucky folk tunes, “John Riley.” from Me- acken County: the “The Hangman's from Harlan. County; Little from Knott County, and ‘Frog Went a-Courtin’,” from Estill Ly, The list movem has a fox trot and tune for its basis. and few bars each fr “Raggetty Ann Swance Butter ballad, auotes | Ker | Donaldasor |trom another popu Light of the § Althouzh the compd ty of thythm, the c to its designation | phonv. “They cull it a ‘jazz’ symphony be- { cause there is popular music with syn- { copation in it.” he said. It isn't jazz,’ for T can’t write that stuff any | better than Irvinz Berlin could write |4 Palestrina motette. ncopation is no low brow affair, anyway—witness the finale of the gec- ond symphony of Tschaikowski, ‘the | theme of which came from™ less re- ble origins than the “Grizzly 2 The point is that. syncopa- is the one musical Ingredient { these popular-song <mithies have ap- propriated: melody theyv have little and thelr harmony i= not notable. | "Mr. de Lamarter, who also ix known for Gther - fo of musical | composition. was born in Lansing, | Mich., in 1880. He obtained his musi- cal education in this country and in Paris. has been organist for several leading churches. music critic for Chicago newspapers and since 1918 has been connected with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. ition hax plen- mpoger ohjected 'RAIL LABOR CHIEFS’ CLAIM IS DISPUTED ilhilway Age Denies Profits . Per Worker Have Shown Increase in Last Five Years. By he Associated wress. CHICAGO, January 16.—In reply to a recent statement of raflway labor leaders that ‘“rallroad profits per worker have. increased fast in the period of which rallroad statiaticians complain most,” way Age today declared tha net operating Income of the raflways per employe annually in_the five vears ending with 1924 was less than |in the pres while the the averaze wage recelved was far g - than in the previous five- | vear period. g 5 The statement on behalf of the raii- | wav labor leaders was based on sta- tstics which, it is claimed. showed that - railway profits per employe in | the vear 1924 showed an increase of | 81 per cent over 1894 and 60 per cent jover 1914, | “The implicatipn.” Age. “is that the raliways sre ploiting’ emploves by making too much profit out of their work. It must be considered in thiz connection |that railway transportation is not | conducted with merely man power. 1t !1s alro conducted with a very large plant, which represents billions of dol- lars of invesimemt. an article {n the Rail-) fous five consecutive years, | VIRGINIA CHILD LABOR MEASURE WRECKED Not 2 Vote in House and But One in Senate Given Amend- ment Proposition. Special Dispateh to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., Januar Legislature has made a wreck of the | proposed amendment o the Federal Constitution regarding chlld labor. The Senate first rejected the proposal 35 to 1, and when it reached the House—the popular branch of the | Geperal Assembly—the members rose up and gave a unanimous vete in op- position. at the same time directing Virginians in Congress to vote against the amendment. This is the only ‘measure that has come before ths Legislature in the last 30 vears that has not had somé one to voice its favor and’ when .not more than one %0 ofi¢ial votie cast in Virginia for State officers was declared vesterday by the Sanate and House joint session, as follows: Governor—Byrd, 107,378 Hoge, 37,692. Lieutenant governor— West, 100,608; Marshall, 37,614. At- torney general —Saunders, 103,355; Parsens, 36,106. Secretary of the com- monwealth—Jjames, 104,145; Crockett, A7.880. Treawurer —Purcell, 82,431; Bassett, 56,594, n First Move- vote was cast.in behalf of the:propo- | races at Daytona, Fla., and they are LOOKS AFTER THE SENATE BILLS. Miss Mary Jean Simpson, the first woman 10 serve in the office of the secretary of the Senate. She has been appointed journal clerk. and her duties includs keeping a record of the bills introduced in the Senate Wide World Phota said 1o be the fastest whippets in the world. These dogs are being held at the barrier-and are ready 1o start over the ecighth-mile course. Three thousand dollars in prizes were distributed to the owners of the winning dogs. 1 PERILS IN SCALING MT. LOGAN TOLD Leader of Aloine Club De- scribes First Ascent of Peak. The extreme hardships encountered | [ bya of mountaineers from the | Canadian Alpine - Club sealing Mount Logan for the first time last | Summer were described before mem- bers of the National Geographic So- clety last evening at the Masonic Temple Auditorfum by H. F. Lam- bart, joint leader of the expedition Mount™ Logan i probably the largest | mountain mass on the globe. the| speaker said, a fact which made it necessary to travel some. 40 miles through snow and over ice in making the ascent. In addition to its areat bulk. mountain stands well to the front altitude. Its topmost pinnacle is over 19,800 feet. making it. ac- cording to Mr. Lambart. the highest peak in the British Empire. save for Mount BEverest and the Himalayan summits near that giant. Mount Lo- gan is the second highest mountain in North America, being surpassed only | by Mount McKinlev in Alaska. Mount Logan is in the Yukon territory, only 4 few miles from Mount St.” Elias, near the southeastern corner of the main portion of Alaska and only about 40 miles from the coast. The scaling party approached Mount Logan through Alaska, going hy sea to Cordova and thence up the Copper River Rallway. Because of the long trall over the ice- it was necessary 1o send in preparatory parties with sup: | plles, which were cached alonz the route for the actual climbers. More than nine tons of supplies were used and some - two-thirds was consumed | in getting the other third in place. | “The party found the main plateau | of Logan to be about 14 miles long, with a number of peaks rising rela tively short distances above. The opmost pinnacle was reached on June 1925. On the return trip the party was logt in a blizzard and suffered | great hardships before they found | thelr trail. [ Arty in the in ZONE LAW FIGHT GOES | TO STATE HIGH COURT Danville, Va Man Insists Right to Build Gasoline Station in Exclusive Residence Section. on Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE. Va., January 16.—The Virginia Supreme Court has granted | a writ of error to George C. Martin | and will determine whether a prop- | erty owner has the right to build a | fllling station in the exclusive resi- dential section. > Martin announced such an inten- | ton and the City Céuncil passed a zoning ordinance under the terms of: which he could not bufld. Despite the ordingnce he started work, was arrested and lost his test case in the Corporation Court. Then he applied for a wrig, of srror, which \as granted. | the aunch - Copyright by nderwond & Underwood. NEW COURT SCHEME INTRAFFIC GASES Chicago Urged to Group Vio- lations in Way to Cut Down Procedure. Inseiting Ritchie Speech in Record Again Is Blocked For the” fifth consecutive day Representative Linthicum. Demo. Maryland, vesterday mude an unsuccessful effort to place in Congressional Record the Juc! day speech delivered by Gay Riichie of Maryland at Chicago. Each attempt has heen blocked by objectors to the zovernor's statement on prohihition. epresentative DBlanton xas, objected yvesterd the governor had : the eighteenth amendment POLICE AGAIN DRAG POTOMAC FOR BODY Man Seen Battling Ice Floe Be- neath Bridge—Hat Found by Searchers. | Br the Concolidated” Pyese CHICAGO, January 3 fand efficient handling of 1t ever mounting number of trafic viola tion eases with thz least annoyance to the violator and to the courts is pro vided in u new scheme of procedur beinz ‘urged for Chicago by the Mu nicipal Court and the chief of police The recomm tions are made after several months of study The plan oposed here is alonz | the line of the system being used | Detroit, and considered a model which a1l cities may well follow. It jcuts down cou procedure, relieves policemen of court appearances and lessens the time the traffic violato must spend in court 16.— stematic Drazging of the river was resumed | today hy harbor precinct police, who were forced last night to abandon | attemnt te locate the hody of a man who was seen battling the ice in the water below the Pennsvivania Avenue Bridge by Recinald Griffitn of fps to the court, terminating 703 -Sixteenth street northeast. connection with the case. The Police of the harbor precinct went |arrested mun will then appear before up beneath the bridge in the motor| the court within hours after the terday afternoon and re- | violation and pay the fine established ered a slouch hat. which was flual- | for the type of violation he is charsed ing Detween cakes of ice. During the | with late afternoon the ice floes hampered [ The scheme provides the wark of the crew to such an ex-|group of violations tent that the dragging work was given | tions of parking ordinances, with fines up until today. | of $1 for the first offense. $3 for th. Griffith told the police that he did | second and $3 for the thir not see the man jump from the bridge. | A second h of violations but caught a glimpse of him swim-|including improper lights, blockinz ming. Grifith said the man sank |traffic in various ways, failure to ob once, came up to the surface and sank | serve signals signs, unnecessar: again while he watched: rioise and other technical infractions = 74 would call for a $2 fine for the firsi BURGLAR’S GAME BALKED. offenseh. $5 for the second and $10 for the third Man Admits Stealing Material for | Stocking Store. The third group, involving missing or obscure license plates, would call for a $2 fine the first offense, $5 the second and cou the - third. The fourtk Rroup. against traffic or on DURHAM, N. C., January 16 (#).— | After eight lo stores had heen burg larized of their choicest stocks, police | yesterday arrested Jam D. Groff, | Who gave his home address as Long | Nine Groups Proposed Nine groups of violations are estals lished, with a set punishment for each se. $5 for the second and $10 for 36 for a first largely infrac the wroun of the street, wouli Beach, Calif. bring firse fine: second, a $10 fine and. third, court. Driving away fram accidents, failure to report to police would cause the same fines in th | Afth group. Slight variations woult Groff. who was found crouching in|be made for each of the: sixth anc a puddle of water under a washing | SeYenth groups machine in a local laundry, confessed, | according 1o the police, that he planned to open his own shop, stock- ing it with the stolen goods. Officers visiting the store whose ad. Speed ‘limit violations would come in the eighth zroup and would bring & $10 fine f. the first offense and court dress he gave, found a little negro| box whom Groff had hired o help | clean up the place, sitting on the steps for the second and third. Driving while intox ted. recklessness and patiently awaiting his employer's re- | turn improper use of trucks would forc: the violator directly into court fo trial ARy | Sues for Divorce. s s 3 2 : Doctor Milas Bennett, a motoreycle Says Wife Threatened Him, | policersan on the Uinted States Park Declaring that his wife, Viola B.|force, it named as defendant in a suit Ingalls, threw a water glass at him, for an ahsolute divorce filed by Mrs. took a crayon portrait of him from the | ATeme Eennett, in which she charges wall, scratched out the eyes of the misconduct and names a co-respondent. picture and threw it upon the floor,|They were married at Baltimore Sep- John D. Ingalls, a master mechanic at | tember 16, 1918 and have one child. the navy yard,”has answered her suit | The wife says she left her husband for a limited "divorce and countered |last October when she learned of his with a request to the court that he be alleged infidelity. She asks alimony given the decree instead of the wife. |from iiis salary which she puts at $20) Tngalls says his wife often threatened a month. Attorneys Rufus W. Pear- to <heot him. nnd declares he Wit son and H. K. Hougson appenr for the cbiiged to leave home, wife; A