Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1926, Page 2

» FOUR START RAGE - FOR PRESIDENCY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. U, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1926 e o aonng o i HOUSE “WETS” SEEK| Nt v, | WATCHMAN'S CRIES — AID T0 MODIFY LAW SCARE THIEVES OFF THE EVENING ISTRIKE GOES ON, LEWIS DECLARES Pictures Taken To Check Einstein Theory Failures By the Assoclated Press. TOPEK, Kans., January 18— Charging that lives of tralnmen are being sacrificed due to the ever-in- who filed the petition, declared”that train créw deaths had mounted nearly 50 per cent from 1921 to 1924 ¥reight trains of more than a mile , in length are a common ocourrance | v Near Arizona Town By the Assoc RATAVIA, tava., Jannary 18— The photographs taken hy the TUCSON The Arizona Ariz % Datly Januars Star savs a ni Ritchie, Donahey, Smith and McAdoo Campaigns Re- ported Under Way. Br he Ao NEW paizns for didates fo atea Prese YORK. January two and possibly 18, four ¢ atic presi nitely un Times sayvs < named are Gov chie of Marviand Ohio., Alfred E. nd former Sec ry William G Treas Shaver, un. who m in his 1es also savs the committee teadlock between \doo forces, are 1use of his own Ritchie a Keen Rival Times ey says } As his a of an in friends reports AMeAdoo Mary chances and delegation nf 1< votes for Gov. considered proh. switch to Gov int were reached. 1 outstanding rizhts including determine what consti- under the that it 2 decisive | Ritchie T oF thre eig e Gov. Donahey considered h sible necessity f third t ir he f ating liquor iment the Times savs ndicapped by the pc of running this Fail m as a means of keep- re durtng the conven New York Democrats ming his campaign adway outside of paig haki ¥ wn State ! re erm < announcement private life at has caused con h Democratic and Rem The Times states that indicate Republican rs are planning to co.operate Her ston de than give State politics by nrogram lering whether applies to national itics. but the gen ives him a free national campalgn talk of running his James r Vice Pre: climinated ht for first ace on the Mavor Walker's recent tour Sonth and his appeal for co- hetween the Nouthern De. and Tammany Hall is con midered significant in view of his pos- sible boom for second place rats are nincement “tate is tha r the as s some is ¥ Swarthmore College expedition of the recent total eclipse of the sun, With a view of obtaining further information regarding Finstein's theory of relativity, are failures. Those taken of the corona are plendid Einstein photographs taken the German and Dutch and other American expeditions were most successful. It has heen de- clded. therefore, not to demolish the apparatus used in connection with the Einstein Investigations, but to retain it for further work in attempts to check Finsteln's theory hy the ‘SENATE T0 GET TAX BILL TOMORROW Only Prospective Fight Is In- surgent Drive on Pub- licity Feature. ind ries. will be The tax-reduction bill {leaders of hoth 1 report ed to the Senate probably tomorrow by Senator Smoot, chairman of the finance committee. The Senate may bezin consideration of it before the end of the week Leaders of both in dorsed the bill, which was unanimous Iy ordered reported Saturday by the finance committee. They described it as non-partisan. and predicted prompt passage by the Senate. The only prospective fight against the measure in the Senate now lies in threats of Republican insurgents to Propese continuance of publicity of in come tax returns and to oppose repeal of the inheritance levy Another fight is in prospect, how- ever. when the bill, if passed as writ- ten by the finance committee, reaches {eonference with the House | man Green of the House ways and means committee, which framed the measire, already has announced op ition to the proposed repeal of the capital stock tax i increase of the corporation levy. Commenting on |repeal of the inheritance tax by the | Senate finance committee. 16 1o 1 Mr. Green remarked that the “bill ver to be acted nupon in con- ference BIG JERUSALEM TEMPLE FUND PLANS ANNOUNCED parties have | | | Chalr- | $500.000 Will Be Sought for Pur-| With Funds Pledged, No Fear of Starving, He Warns Operators. By the Amsociated P SCRANTON. Pa . January 18, The striking anthracite miners, in the | words of John L. Lewis, are deter mined to continue the fight, whatever the cost Fresh from the acclamation which two mass meetings of striking anthracite miners accorded him at Wilkes-Barre vesterday, Lewis has ar anged for two addresses here today he President of the United Mine Workers and other union officiuls are touring the anthracite field, giving di rectly unting of the conduct of | to the miners an the strike. Can Hold Out eYar. ntinuing the fight, Wilkes Barre: “The anthracite operators now, nor one vear from now the ‘strength of the mine work unfon to the point where its members will be driven back to the anthracite collieries upon the selfish terms of their employers.” He said there was no need to fear that the miners’ families would starve, [for the United Mine Workers would stand behind the anthraciters. and {finuncial and moral support from othes miilfons of wage earners Leing ranged There roar of “ayes asked whether tion should Le continued Lewis denied fthe miners were re sponsible for the break up of the New York conference He attacked the operators proposals to submit wa demands to arbitration unless the operators also agreed to arbitrate profits, 1 | As to Lewis said ut nnot nsh i an almost unanimens when the meeting was opposition to arhitra was { Scores Secret Agreement. | He sald that the rupture negotiations was due entirely " ret iron clad agreement among operators to maintain i waze st {ard low enough to enahle certain mis | managed coal companies continue |operation at a profit, notwithstanding ibad management and inefficiency He accused the operators of | tempted coercion of employes through |vefusal of mercantile credits and re | terred 1o what he deseribed de JUght in human sacririce and human | suffering | At Harrisburz Gov paring an addr to |urging action for control of anthra | mining. Four measures pertaini anthracite are before the legislatire but none of them is expected | progress further than a hearing in thef Pinchat the legislature is pre GREEN AGAI Appeal for Funds Miners' Families. Men. women and children in the ASKS AID. Issues to Keep creasing length of freight trains, two of the hig four railroad brotherhoods appealed to the Kansas Public Service Commission for relief. It was believed tn he the first labor case suhmitted 1o State Public Service Commission for adjudication. State representativ f the Broth- erhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Brotherhood of |ocomotive Firemen, ' and there are records of operation in Kansas of freight trains having 169 cars which measure nearly one and one-half miles, the trainmen sald The increasing ratio of deaths and injuries among train and engine em ployes is mainly attributed to the tremendous length of trains operated with the same signal and other f cilities that obtained many years ago. PUBLIC SUPPORT GIVEN ABORETUM Luce Receives Many Mes- sages on Eve of Com- mittee Hearing. With the Luce bill authorizing the purchase of a (raet the establish- ment of national etum here coming up for consideration before the House agriculture committee 1o morrow morning, members of that | committee and others in Congress particularly interested in such legis lation received numer: telegrams | v from all parts untry from large associations ur favor al ction on this measore. mple of the telezrams received Chariman Luce of the House com ttee on library, who <ponsoring his measure, reads as follows i A Approval From Brooklyn. From €. Stewart Gagor, directoraf the Brooklvn. N. Y., publie rdens Rrooklvn's Botanic Gardens consid. | wal of v bill authorizing retary of Agriculture to estab. u.-v'v boretum in District Hopes for passage of Lo 2 m E. H. Baleo e, Kans and Western na | president. Law W jiolsinger, Kans. represent Association the men We are much bill enacted as Individuals or nterested an | 1 W i est Dis D vou can this bill enacted will he zrea ciated by the nurserymen of the Mid dle West | al arhoret i Any b in having appre Success to RBill N ite ‘Ou the oy ind Averill. secy I wires requ national himbia = erymen’s Assor establishment 1m in the approves t i L Ferris Park Commissi » the L Washingt command of possible assisti at irzently | sts hill rsent District 4 rep 1 The Toliet seience seems the farm | women | 24 hours Ritchie’s Wet Talk Placed in Record After 6 Attempts The recent add Ritchie of Marvland at Chicago finally inserted in the Congressional ord today, after six unsuccessful attempts had been made in the House. Senator Maryland sent in the Senate Similar attempts by Linthicum, Democrat w defeated six times House on objections to its tion was Bruce, Democrat, of obtained unanimous con- for the tepresentative Maryland in the attack action. on prohi WOMEN AGAIN ASK EQUAL RIGHTS ACT AT WHITE HOUSE! (Continued from First Page.) give us others more poorly paid " Miss Casey said: “The ballot was our bat- tle. The equal rights amendment will be our emancipation A biil providing with men Congress last vear and Representative jr. of Kansas and this session The mass meeting and presentation of the petition at the White House preceded by only a little more n the opening of 4 woman's Industrial conference. sponsored by the Women's Bureau of the Depart ment of Lahor. at which problems affecting women in all branches of industiy will be discussed. The con ference will open tonight at the New National Museum with addresses by coretary of Labor Davis and Mis ldith Nourse Hogers and Mrs. Flor ence I'. Kahn. members of Congrese from Massachusetts and California It will last for four davs. closing with . At Rauscher '« nizht Equal rights and before the law speakers at the Bel and requested in the ¢ also left for the Asks The petition follows “We, self-supporting women from for in rights rod equal was by Senator Curtls . R. Anthe reintroduc hanyuet business, indusiry was urged o mass meet petition vester President in Ald for Amendment. by | 56 Members Sign Letter to Colleagues Asking Help for Liberalization. The unofficial House committes for modification of the Volstead act, head- ed hy Representative Hill, Republi- can, Maryland, today issued an ap- i peal signed by 36 House members and addressed to other Representatives to joln in an attempt to liberalize the dry law at this Congresx. The com mittee proposed to hold public hear ings 1o consider suggestions for ‘proper liberalization™ before agreeing on a bill for modification. “Modification of the Volstead act is inevitable” the committee letter said “The only question is what form modification shall take and when such modification will be made. The Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America, after its recent research as to the effect of prohibition on the community as regards indus. trial. social and moral conditions. stated that ‘drinking by young people compared with pre-prohibition times is more,’ and ‘the aftitude 1o ward law enforcement and respect for laws in general is worse. { The Federal Council also stated that the Anti-saloon League of lows a survey of conditions in Du Clinton, Davenport, Muscatine irlingion. sald ‘rampant law increasing by leaps and is forang lowa to face the problem of either demanding strict enforcement of the present prohibi tiom laws or else of modifying these laws 0 permit the sale of light wines land beer. The Anti-Saioon since the passage insistently and Inc strict enforcement,’ tve, In view of tions, fs modification. The letter quoted Assistant Secre tary Andrews of the Treasury, in | charge of prohibition, ax announcing memade wine 1d be made | of any alcoholic strength as they were not actually “in in fact.” Beer. however if it containg as much as of 1 per cent of alcohol added as | [ Brigue | lessness, hounds, league having, f the Volstead act, | santly demanded the only alter the above condi- toxicating is illegal one-half the letter 'HENRY B. BENNETT DIES AT AGE OF 89 Had 60 Years of Service With Gov- | ernment, Including Period in Civil War. Henr Union the ['nited ment for residence i Army Bennett, X4 vears ald veteran and a clerk in States Treasury Depart- many vears, died at his in the Portner Apartments | nitely | tobacen trate deposit Arivaipa Arizona the mining Winkleman, comprises an entire mountain, and 1s tha first deposit of irs kind to he found in the ['nited States Willlam Carter and his son Wil bur of Glen Bar. Ariz. whn have staked out the claims, helleved at firat that they had a deposit of Zine ores, the story says. Peruvian experts who investigat ed the find are quoted as saving the deposit is similar in content to those of Peru and Chile DENIES TARIFF AIDS discovered on the River of near town of SURPASS HANDICAP - Harrison Declares Coolidge Claim of Assistance Is *“Il- logical and Fallacious.” Addressing the tariff in its relation to tor Pat Harrison of M clared it cannot be contended that the present 1ariff rates the farmer either divectly nd more than they handicap hir Senator Harrison part exception 1o a statement of Presider Coolidge in his Chicagn speech « cember T that “the total adverse co to the farmer an account of the tariff is only between 2 per cent and 3 cent of his purchases” rison characterized took the | analysis as being illogical Calls Argument Fallacions ““The mere statement the | dent.” the Senator deciared. “tha Al rAtes on Sugar ons in protection inured T | benefit of the farmers of the oo reveals the illogical and fal argument. 1| have not the ficures at hand upon which I r 1 the very small number « that are henefited by the tariff, but [ am sure no one tradict the statement that there hundreds upon hundreds who pay the tax on s there is one who receives an thareform. The same mas be s and # long e ticles that are employed hy the Pre dent in the calculations upor the assertion made. Se Harrison contended t} is impossible in the er iff rates to render hen ture similar to those given the facturing interests of the country only the exceptin he said agricu mann case Police Fail to Find Would-Be Robbers of Palais Royal After Getting Alarm. After orge counter andeuffing Neitzay and tving up watchman, with a at Palais Revral three bandits falled their attemptyat burglary and safe {cracking when wrigg {1oose from his gave tha the ves) Nei bind alarm, The th ght i3] to th in hel oven When , helley them to be clerks ing to part in the agnual inventory mped on him tking him or and knockiug ht t was mar ¥ men while the g one o Sasd - counters the three burglars started {or us they laft hie, enthusiasti frightened ther whose “hat she ght be } am WOMAN RESUMES | STAND IN TRIAL OF WAN FOR MURDER 1ed F from Deseribes Telezra pose in Amerioa, United Syna- when' any product of agriculture can | be raised in price through the impo sitfon of tariff rates He i th cases are rare in which United | States imports more tural product than it exj Smoot Promises Reply The Senator then long list of evervday | purchased by the farmer he pays a tariff. beginning | dvnamite the farmer land of stumps, mans hold articles he huvs lizers he uses to « When Senator Hairisi nephews |his wadress Senutor city and | jiean, of Utah e ore | to discuss the questic LR of important pending row d he wished to call attention thit anthracite fields are pictured as hav ing been reduced by the 1 strike | to a “sad plight” of hunger. insuf ficient clothing and suffering from cold. in another appeal for assistance from organized labor issued by Presi dent Willlam Green and the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, made publie today . Officials in charge at the fedaration’s office today declined to divulge how much support has been given (o the miners by branches of the A. . of 1.. or the public. following a previous ! appeal made by the federation Decem ber 21. The federation has records | of contributions made. but will not | | divuige the fizures at present, it was | stated. Declaring the various parts of the country., have 1 | gathered to ask you ax the head of our | Natton and the leader of the party in| Army. Mr. Bennett had served the control of our Government, to givedi'nited States Government more than your powerful aid to secu the im-{ 0 vears. When retired he was a | mediate passage of the equal rights|member of Burnside Post, Grand | amendment. Army of the Republic | “Equality Mr. Bennett was a native of Fall | | men and women was held so impor-{ River, Mass., and served in the ith tant that our nation#l Constitution ichusetts Regiment during the was enlarged in order fo guarantee between the North and South | this right to women. Kven more im- -ral es were conducied ut portant to women is the right to earn| the chapel John R. Wright. under their living on equal terms with men < 37 Tenth thix after | We ask that this most important right | oclock. Inferment was of all be guaranteed by our national]in Arfington (enerery b Constitution so that women shall no| Mr. Bennett leaves longer be handicapped by laws debar-! William A. Slade of this ring them from industrial equality | charles Haves v of with men Pa. and three nieces We who are earning our living| Slade and Miss Ruth F find our struggle made more aiicult |of Providence R. 1. and by laws t prevent us from offering | Viles. His wife the late Mrs . ceneited ARG our services to our emplovers on an! Mary Hartwell Bennet M : »\- 3 dre o aites the quest Yore s expe .>\I|.»n:«-~i authoriz | aqual basie with men. by laws that| was re(ired tromtha Havermment | Cussed by Senator Harrison. und & prevent us from entering various o service in 1922 jibat he wolld ipresentian Jute 2 ithe subject at a later opporiun 1 representation in preliminary | cupations entirely; by laws that pre.| o COOLIDGE TO OUTLINE joHN S. McKENZIE DIES, POLICIES AT MEETING| y, s, WORKER 50 YEARS < conferenc | vent us from continuing our work Will Address Government Business| .. prominent in Masonic Circles nanimous sent calendar is 8 t |after we are married. In earning our order of business measures to be |jjving we must struggle against prej. | Organization January 30—Bria. Gen. Lord Also to Speak. Saturday after a long illness. In cluding his service in the Union MecAdoo Backers Worried. McAdoo supporters. the Times adds, are worried lest their campaign as 8ume an anti-Smith rather than a pro- McAdon complexion. = influential Democrats. Times continues, are reported o tn the nomination of either Gov. Smith or Mr. McAdoo. whose names they fear would again result in o serious deadlock as in 1924, They are said favor the nomination of s Thomas Walsh of Mon- 2 ho declined to become a candi- the last convention ROBBERS DRILL WALL. STEAL $50.000 ALCOHOL Fortresslike Warehouse Yields Ingenious Thieves—$5.000 in Cash Also Is Taken. Prees horticulturist kindred enterprises forestry o and many ase hoost It | gogue Leader Says. | w the ar the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 18. — Plans 1o raise $500,000 for erecting a temple in Jerusalem were outlined vesterday hefore the opening session of the United Synagogue convention. Ap- proximately 1,000 persons were pres ent when the convention was opened by Rabbi Herman Cohen of Kansas City. Mavor William A. Dever, ing the visiting delegates, | that no country can he great where intolerance exists and asserted that evidences of intolerance are rapidly disappearing Other speakers were Mrs. M. Cohen of the national committee of the Women's the Unlited States, and H. J. Roeder president of the Young People's League of the United Synagogues of America. SENATE CLOTURE i ON WORLD COURT B T e conal UP TO OPPONENTS | suffering and privation. the ind__ escaped th alcohol | sald. Bl APl oh Sl . | “Because of the intense suffering in drums. was taken | which prevails among the miners in 1 the to be in the suffrage between enumerated mmodities which the: his The interstate held Senate. commerce com hearing on the ques and h on on with The the tior rail welcom declared resolution in i hearing on the Jating to power ciary committee xecutive meeting resumed considera- | World Court leases two held a striking miners are | compelled to continue their fight for the cause of organized labor by the refusal of the operators to recede from | their position at the recent attempt to settle the dispute at the New York | conterences, todav's appeal calls upon | arganized workers throughout the country to “contribute so they may | have food and clothing while fighting | the batile.’ “The striking miners of the anthra |cite region and their wives and chil dren must continue to endure hungzer samuel | executive | League of | | tion cause to House. was | GREEKS HALT DEBT PARLEY AS REQUEST FOR MONEY IS DENIED re on By the Associate NEW YORK. January 18 leisurely th h the night ils and crowbars, eight robbers fortressiike walls of | Working with elec- i | | considered includin: replica of udice and custor e ask At iulen: Bk Whshington 10 ||k of ous Bonairs e L. the lodgement in the Pan-American |ba thrown into the scale against e Building: amendment of Library of |and our struggle thereby made stilll « trust fund act: transfer | harder. We ask that our National| Dixie highway to State of Ken vernment should protect its women | tucky: Sioux Indian battle monu- | warkers equaliy with its men workers | ment: commission for the ob ‘Wa who have been thrown out of | i i mEress i | w of Capital Over Long Period (Continued from First Page.) ise of this Gover away on robbers automobile trucks The did not attempt to fe outer doors of the warehouse, but made their attack from an adjoining building where a wate man was overpowered and gagged. The walls of the warehouse, of brick and steel 3 30 inches thick The robbers stole $5 a number of violi crockery from the houses MRS. JOHN DOLPH DIES. Wife of Past President of Rotary Club Had Lived Here 18 Years. M Jane [ and pieces of adjoining ware- ¥ JAph, 65 vears old, John Dolph and a resident of bout 18 rs. died at her 3 Colorado avenue, yesterday s a loni illness. Her husband is magager of the main office of the n Life Insurance Co.. In ton, and is a past president Club, services will be conducted residence tomorrow afternoon Rev. Newton M. Sim- monds. pastor tist Church, will officiate will he in Fort Lincoln Cemetery Mrs. Dolph was a native of Canada. 11 PNEUMONIA DEATHS. Sixteen New Cases Over Week End Also Reported. Sistean new cases of pneumonia de. veloped in the District over the week and, according to reports today to the Health Department. There were 11 deaths from the disease during this period. Health Officer William €. Fowler re- fterated his advice that people should feet dry and warm and sudden chilling of the body protection against the dixease. 1+ plans to give additional infor- mation on pueumonia_tomorrow night in a talk to be broadcast by Station AWMAL, the newly dedicated Wash- ington radio forum. BANDITS DIE IN BATTLE. Federals in Encounter With Bands of Marauders in Mexico. Br Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. MEXICO CITY, January 18.—Offi cial dispatches received by the Me: can ministry of war from the State of Michoacan report an encounter be- tween federal troops and a group of marauding bandits in which five bandits were killed. and another fight which resulted in the death of the so- called Gen. Florentino Martinez. Troops have lately been busy in Michoacan cleaning up a number of small bands of robbers, who are not rebels but bandits. The government announces that the state is now leared of all unruly element 0 in cash and | of the Highlands Bap. | Interment | a vote on the court before the tax bill is taken up was discussed, and it is understood that the anti-court group will fight cloture vigorously. Some of the anti-court Senators threaten re. | prisals on other legislation if the ad- ministration undertakes 1o bring de- bate on the court to a close by means of the cloture rule. Some of the Republican leaders, it was sald, had given assurances that { i court proposal. Furthermore. it ix well understood that some of the Senators counted on to vote for. the World Court are becoming more and more desirous of postponing a vote. even until the next sesslon of Con gress. Theme Senators are due to come up for re-election this Fall. The Ku Klux Klan and other organizations ure attacking the court, and the Sen ators are not looking forward with equinimiiy to the primaries and elec tions which must follow if they vote for cloture and then for the World Court. | Watson Against Cloture. | Senator Watson of Indlana, assist |ant Republican leader of the Senate, has indicated that he is opposed to applying the cloture rule at this time |on the World Court. and that he | would work against it. Democratic Senators favoring the court are anxious in many cases that the cloture rule be inyoked. The Senators who gathered in Sen- ator Borah's office vesterday to map their plans for resisting a vote on, the World Court were. in addition to Sen- ator Borah. Senators Reed and Wil- llams of Missouri, the former a Dem- ocrat, and the Senator Blease of South Carolina, Democrat; Senator Shipstead of Min- nesota, Farmer-Labor: Senators Fer- nald of Maine. Brookhart of Towa Harreld of Oklahoma. Howell of Ne- braska, Frazier of North Dakota, schall Dakota and La Follette of Wisconsin. These Senators are understood have laid out a plan of campaign. In- cluding 4 program of speeches to hold the floor against a vote until the tax bill shall have been taken up for con- sideration. The tax bill may not come up until the end of the week, and the anti-court Senators will have their hands full if they are to prevent a vote by the filibuster route. They are determined not to. permit a vote at this time, belleying that sentiment in the country Is raising against ad- herence to the court. On the other hand, the proponents of the court are redoubling their ef- forts to bring about favorable action. ganizations of women in the country are on record in favor of American adherence to the World Court, and they are urging now that steps be taken to bring the court resolution to a vote and that it be passed. Cummins Back in Senate. Senator Cummins. Republican, lowa, ho has been confined to his home ¥ #he Sepate today, cloture would not be attempted on the . latter a Republican; of Minnesota. Nve of North| to! Practically all the great national or-| %ith bronchitis, was abie to return to the anthracite region we deem it nec lessary 1o supplement the appeal we {issued December 21 by asgain appeal {ing to the officers and members of or- ganized labor, their friends and their | sympathizers o come to the assist ance of our fellow workers in the ar thracite region by making such finan {cfal contributions as the circun | stances require their conditions i permit | “Only men who are great cause and whose lovalty to their union overshadows every other con I sideration would sacrifice and suffer | an these men are doing. It is the |of organized Iabor which moves them |and which inspires thera to ficht for ithe maintenance of high living stax lards, for the preservation of their or ganization and for exere their free rights as American cit and American working n “Come to their rescu and devoted to a | | 1 VOTES $300 FOR MIN Typographical Union of D. nates Sum to Strikers. A donatlon of $300 was voted to the striking United Mine Workers by Co Tumbia Ty pographical Union, No. 101 vesterday In its monthly meeting at | Typographical Temple. Tt was an | nounced also that steps would bhe | taken later to “extend further relief.” | Members were urged to attend a hen efit dance in aid of the miners. to he held at the Knights of Columbus Hall February 12. The union voted to send the news. paper scale to arbitration. A. M. Rogers. delegate to the Cen tral Labor Union, reported that or ganized labor was on record against the proposed bill extending the pow ers of the Commissioners and also against the Blanton picketing bill. President Eugene F. Smith an. | nounced that Miss Louise G. Ward | | of Columbia Typographical Union and | Miss Jo Coffin of New York Typo- ! graphical Union. No. 6. had been | named as delegates to represent the | International Typographical Union in | the conference on Women in ludus try, tc open n Washington tonight A committee consisting of Joseph €. Baston, Bdward S. Hantzmon and Norman Sandridge was nuamed to range for a showing here of the In ternational Union’s film, entitled *His Brothep's Keeper,” some time in Feb- ruary. Reports were made of the hearings on the proposed retirement law and | other legisiation of Interest to the unfon. . Do- Secret Treaty Denied. The State Department today denied there were any secret clauses in con- nection with the agreement under which the United States recognized Mexico August 21, 1923. Senator La Follette asked the Sen ate Saturday to obtain information on the question. but the department’s statement today '=aid the minutes of the meeting of the United States. i state ‘Mexican conference were contained in a public document accessable one desiring to read them. servance of the 130th anniversary of the evacuation of Boston by the British troops: use of proceeds from sale of surplus War Depart ment property for permanent con struction at military post and a number of bridge bills Committee on public buildings and grounds adjourned withont reaching a vote on the £165.000.000 public building bill, which includes $50.000.000 under a five-yvear pro- gram fo house government ac vities In the National Capital. This commitiee mects again tomor row morni Subcommittees of House app | s committee continue hear- | State and justice. deficten cies and Avmy appropriation bills Secretary Hoover, principal wit ness at rubber investigation be fore committee on interstate and foreign commerce. Lineberger forestry bill subject of hearing before commitiee on agriculture. California projects hearing before riv committee. Watson Miller witness at hearing hefore committee on World War veterans' legislation Milltary affairs committee con ducts hearing to permit Secretary of to purchase | secret devices. | . | LONG AND SHORT HAUL | AMENDMENT OPPOSED| ings on subject of and harbors 1. C. C. Majority Sees No Necessity for Change in Provision of Commerce Act. Opposition of the Interstate Com- mer Commission to the Gooding bill to amend the long and short haul y vision of the interstate commer expressed to the Senate commerce committee today by Fsch, member of the commis. | which he said | was John J sion Ile read a statement, represented the views of all members of the commission except four, who had given him individual statements to present. It said the majority could see no necessity for the passage of & bill “which will have the effect of eliminating to a considerable degree, if not entirely, the competition be- {ween rall and water carriers hetween points between which both forms of transportation are now in operation.” The purpose of the measure is to pravent railroads from charging more for a short haul than for a long one. Fog Halts Five Liners. NEW YORK. January 18 (£).—Five incoming liners were held up at Quar- antine today by fog. They were the Cristobal of the Panama Rallroad Line, the Ascania and Andania, Cunard Line; the Flora, Royal Dutch | men competing with | same employment is to handicap wom- el | some professions work because of a law preventing owr working after a certain hour in the day; we who have been thrown out of work because of a law preventing our working as many hours as our men competitors; we who have been thrown out of work because of a law prevent- ing us from working overtime on the ame basis ax our men competitors. we who have been thrown out of work because of a law debarring us from certain occupations: we who have been thrown out of wo because of a law Preventing us from continuing our oc cupation after marriage: we who have had our wages lowered and our oppe tunity for advancement stricted these same luws, inasmuch as they huve narrowed the field of pald work open to women—we appeal to vou as the responsible head of our country 10 give your backing to this amend ment which will guarantee to women the right to equality with men In the struggle to support themselves and their familie Persecutfon in Laws. Speakers at the mass meeting. ov. which Mrs. Donald Hooker of Baltl. more presided. contended that *perse- cution. not protection, results from so- called ‘welfare’ laws enacted to apply to women. but not ta men Iry." The announcement was made from the stage that contributions ag- Rregating more than $5.000 have heen received or pledged for the equal vights eampaign. Miss Gail Laughlin of Portland, Me.. an attorney. inslsted that “ta put re strictions upon women in business and in industry which do not apply to the them for the en, no matter what those restrictions are.” Miss Margaret Hinchey of New York told the meeting that in New York waitresses are barred by law from working at night when “travs are lighter and tips heavier.” Three thousand raflroad women, she de red. were thrown out of work he cause of legal restrictions in New York, but the “welfare” workers who sought their enactment “were not in terested in what happened to the women they ‘protected.’ Mrs. Murray said the law now in- terferas with entrance of women into and bars them from working at night. She urged passage of the equal rights amendment as a “real protection and the only per- petual safeguard of working women."” Mrs. Florence Bayard flilles and Miss Mabel Vernon of Wilmington, Del.; Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr of New York and Mrs. Margare} Whittemore of California were announced as dele- gates from the National Woman's Party to the conference which opens tonight. Mrs. E. J. Brennan. wife of the manager of the Hotel Hamil- ton. will represent Washington at the conference. Several score women's organizations wjH be represented at the general sessions which begin to- morrow morning. when William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor; John E. Edgerton, presi- dent of the National Association of Manufacturers, and Miss Mary Van Line, and the Fert_ Victoria of the Furness Bermuda Lins. Kleeck of the Russell Founda- tion will apeak. in indus. | President Coolidge will outline his | policies on efficiency and economy in | | administration of the Government dur- ing the coming vear at the busine: organization meeting of the Govern ment at Memorial Continental Hall the evening of January 30 Brig. Gen. Herbert N. Lord. direc- | tor of the Bureau of the Budget. also will speak. as is the custom. reporting | for the entire Government machine the progress so far made and pros. pects for the future. Music will be furnished hy United States Army Band from to 8 wlock, when the President Lewrd, The proceedings will wio deast by PLANE IN BA.NDIT HUNT. Joins Search for Bank Robbers, | Who Took $14.000 in Gold. CHICAGO, January 18 (#®) —Four bbers held up the State Bank of Franklin Park. a surburb, early today and escaped with $14.000, the bulk of | it in gold. Two tellers, a stenogranher | and two customers were forced into a | vault The county { i the | 70 will Le e e | highway police airplane was ordered ont a few minutes aftrer the robbery. Sergt. Francis Sarraher pilot. immediately began scoutine the highways for the robbers. OCEAN BOTTOM SINKS. TU. S. Expert Reveals Drop of 140 Feet in North Sulu Sea. Part of the ocean bed in the north- ern part of the Sulu Sea. #0 miles west of the Island of Panay, sank 140 teet between October 3. 1914, and De cember 18. 1916, savs an article hy hydrographic experts of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, which will appear in an early issue of American Geographic Magazine This sinking of the sea hottom was disclosed through comparison of sur- veys made on the above dates. and the experts expressed full confidence in the accuoracy of hoth. DENY FURNITURE TRUST. 58 Manufacturers Plead Not Guilty to Indictments. CHICAGO. January 18 (#)—Fifty- eight furniture manufacturers today pleaded not gulilty to Indictments charging conspiracy to violate the Sherman anti-trust act. Their trial was set for April 5. Federal Judge Adam . Cliffe fixed their bonds at $£1.000 each. Among them were 25 indicted In the dining room furniture group and the remaining 33 were manufacturers of bedroom furniture. Nine individuals also entered pleas of not guilty and the names of two defendants wers stricken out because of death. Funeral Tomorrow 65 at the where he 30 vears, Sunday John Stuart MeKenzie old, formerly a machinst Washington Navy Yard was employed more than died at Providence Hospital after a short fliness Mr. McKenzie had long heen prom inent in Ma les here. lie was a memt John's No. 11, F. £ and Commandry, No Rorn in Paltimore. Mr came to this eity when went to work at the cept £ a brief interval, he con o work there uniil retived soon « he retirement ucl went ing effec 920 Funeral services will conducted i the residence of hisx duughter, Mrs Haery Duvis, Nu. 5 K street north east, LOMOrrow afternvon at wclock. Interment will be in Congression Cemetery. He is survived by the duughter son John . McKenzie: twu Lrothers, Alexander McKenzie and \Wi m M Kenzie. and & sister, Mrs. Belle Ven able. all of Washington WOMAN KILLED IN JUMP FROM TRAIN IDENTIFIED Leaped From Window Nisht. Body Run Over by Another Express Before Found. Br the Associated Prese PITTSBURGH. .January 8. The woman who jumped to her death trom the St. Louis-New York express on the Pennsylvania Railroad at La trobe Saturday night was identifiad today by rafiroad officials as Mrs Harry Slater of Los Angeles. Calif Slater. of 4642 West Seventeenth place, Los Angeles. was advised of the death when his name found In the victim's effects. He answered that it was his wife, and that Mrs. Finkel stein of Chicago would go to Latrobe 10 clalm the body. The woman, according reports, wus traveling Ly Pueblo, ('0ld., to New Yourk Latrobe, she went into u washroon and jumped from a window. Truin No. 4. Pittsburgh to Philudelphia passed over the budy before it was found by a track walker. CENSORSHIP PROTESTED. BUCHAREST, January 1% (#) Bucharest newspaper owners are pro teating against movernment ship and other restrictions on the pib- lication of their jowmrnals. They passed a resolution strongly protest ing against the instifution of censor Ha in railroad couch from Nearing ship as being contrary 1o the express | stipulations of the comstitution. The prohibition of the sale of foreign newspapers also is proteated. The resolution requests prompt rev ocation of what is termed’ exceptional and unconstituyienal antipress meas- ures. censor- have King explaines eece should be additional ises made her France and the U'ni t aid, had 3 money hese Asis Minw Nenutor King formed vi in th drive against I ters Greece iy Pulgaria He had said. the esrel France. Gr Britain States had not caried on had 1 VA 100S] M e dinner the Not Re; to Diseuss Issue At the Mr. Cotin th, Iy nner “iated t he could not ma annauncement debt negoti: two things right, and people wer and fair play He felt this wou mant of the acc | all concerned Among the other speales | Hall. commercial from the United States | that Gireece was soun spect; that American | terprises {world's refuge Spea The Gre Stutes, 1 16 Conries Firs| second th, known n Greece different en < of Courtesies Extend Ministe o | Yhe United St his duties i assured his feur ubuut relations America benet Other New York ton. Mr Nicholson into English I Frank Rice. tes, whici hter and audience tl he contin Letween his anticipatin speskers were A. Nickas Thomaides Gre Asks Study by Senators. District | The senate requested today 1o | inspection of the W tal zrounds before p which would provide for of Fourteenth street throuzh that re. ervation. The request was made a letter to Senator Capper from Maj Gen. Ireland, surgeon general of the Army, ter Reed Derso Hosp) the | 16 extens