Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1926, Page 14

DARK CONTINENT. from the Arni ! ntin Af . shows 4 few of ti rip in o e R HE A GUARD OR A MASCOT? anis champion, always travels wit taken at Am feated by Mlle. Viasta's LASSES GRADUATE FROM SIX SEHOOLS Final 9 Midyear Commence- ment at Wilson Normal Takes Piace Tonight. Chorles Woad, v oof the Cove mencement pastor of the m. speaking gt rei i Cen hooi 1 nizhi. told the | f the unlimited oppe 1 in the uniried falds of nee to gnalife udents avantie of the e Hy the e sehonls | Millar. principel of the annonneedd 1hs o honor s e Kenneth of diplomos ni the Nowmed corneem 1 held at Wil esses Bushwess Graduates, the princio: | the (ourve it his ¢ hiedn e (et Gilhert dinlom nor Paits, ot teid ich v Fhoon cuident W viv nf (5 for comuletion of the presented b Tones of the almnt ase Frederick o o tesat Eastern Hich ntazion of the sdinlom Dr. Ruymond AL t Susiern Hizh ASsopiition ihe Commissioner A Duevenr i hool Tast ht made aas Exercises at Western, W, Bellou, sunerintend 1=, presided 1 the exer. Western High School, which cre the first held in the new :ndi- um. Dr. John J. Tigert, United ites commissioner of education. de- | li.ered the addre: The 24 members | of the graduating class, among whom was his daughter, Adele, were present- i with diplomas by Dr. J. Varela, | ster from. Uruguay. tepresentative R. G. Simmons of | Nehraska delivered the address at the | midycar graduation éxercises of Lung lin Fra; | presided. Diplomaa. am Mitehell. whose resigna- wusy preparing for another aph. taken in Mitchell's Washington ML Suzanne Lenglen, French b her i n terrier, and 1t where the star is expected to meet Helen Wills, Suzanne, is talking dog ‘Plan for Hearings On D. C. Fiscal Bill "To Begin.Feb. 15 The dot the the for stavting hearines on appropriation biil for Leginning July 1 at Feiru- nee today be- Madden of the commigters and Funk of ‘Jlinois, Pistrict subeom: twean Hous Repr chalrman mittee. The District bill will he the last of the his Government supply bills on which hearings will be held. Action_on thls measure has been delaved untl meribers of the sub- commitize could be relies duty on other subcommittecs con. Charnsn proprigi Pt Live of the ntative ces R. G. riska anl George n 0f Massachusctts, pallicans, senta < and Sime, Holden “ommi 1Git ion: s, Ac for the he the fir itnesses the sabeommittee WOULD TAX BUILDING SALES TO FOREIGNERS Fiench Chamber Votes 20 Per Ce t Rate cn “ugh Trans- actions. By iy Asboiated Presx PARIS. January 20.—-By # vote of 153 10 70 the Chamber of Deputies de- d oy A1y 8 institute a surtax ) per eent_on the sale of butldings e 10 foreigners, AL Nlimofte, Partsian deputy and au- thor of the measure,*painted out that while the number of-French traders . ic hed abroad was less than 3.600, ! arbored 25.000 foreign 6 3(500,000 for- "< in France at present. Finance Minister Doumer pleaded in vine thar existing comsular conven afon; d itlezsnl the applicaiion Wf such & that embodfed in M. Missoffe's bills- Ma Lamoureux. zenérsl reportér of the budget, also 1he measyre. ey Jdunior High School held vesterday afternoon at tern High School. Harry O. Hine, secretary of the Board of Education. presided. The .invoca- tion was by Ret. S. Daugherty. Perry W. Howard'was'the principal spegker at the third. commencement exercises of the R s Junior High School held yesterd: the Zion Bap- tist: Church. . Dr., den’ Johnsoh awarded. by Miss M, }‘.'Sh;dd»lr!sun “spperin- xlendl‘"! Dr. Aquille 1os. sald the ive inks nothing but milk. Eve- who attempted < Chicago recently, is bark in C Her favorite beverage. ve. is mwilk. and shg drank a assfo! while the camera clicked. ull peed <on (the M Falaise de 1 speed hoat in +. But she did not go wugh ont to dodge the pho- tographers. IT LOOKS LIKE A BIG YEAR FOR THE BIRDS OF WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. The District_can suffer 2 house plenty of homes for the bird population. Here we have the children of the Henry T. Blow School, Ninet who have completed their quota of birdhouses. 3 : | NEW MACHINE GUN TEST. | Safely Device in World’s Largest Mine | GROTTO T0 GIVE DANCE. rom Death in Blast | vaudeville show Atco to Be Oftered but there will k road nerthe: Temonstration Witnessed by Rep- resentatives of Foreizn Embazzies. | A machine zun’ which if is claim will uniformly distribute the fire A trankverse direction, thus wiping out the human equation so far as it ~saivolled the accur of fire, was jdemonstrated to military and naval attaches of several of the for- eign em and legations at Camp | s ss Helghts-D. ., ves. ,terday afternoon. The invenior of the gun is Frnest .J.° Rasmussen | Amons those who - witnessed demonstration were Capt. E. Pri military _attache of the Cuban | bassy; Lieut. Comdr. A. Ward Young, | naval attache of the Chilean em i ha Lient. Col. Bohdan Hulewic | military attache of the legation of | Poland: Capt. Saburo lsoda. assistant military attache to the imperial Japanese embassy; Maj. Carlos Gar- fias, military attache of the Chilean embassy, and Col. Augusto Villa, mili- tary attache of the Itallan embassy. ed (i the the ! Miss Martin Harvey, daughter of the famous actor. recently received RUDOLPH COMES TO fOWN. Italian_embassy for noon. Then he po mbassy section mera hy.” Valentino of the movies called at the 4 conference with the Ambassador yesterday after- ed with B. J. Beckman, p n detailed to the of Sixteenth street. just to that he was not e <how LIKE A RIT OF W AR, WHILE PEACE REIGNS OVER ALL. atrol machine gun at € 1 Col. William S. H and Col. Augusto Villa of Ttaly. 1 Protects 1,230 Men F | By the Associated Prese CHICAGO, January 30.—Rock dust, prepared and placed, as an_accident | prevention measure, smothered an ex- plo: ay in the world's great est cos and turned what other- | wise might have been n serious’d aster, with 1 men underground, {into a minor sccident, which cost five lives. The accident occurred in the new Orient mine of the' Chicago,} Wilminzton and Franklin Coal Co., at West Frankfort, 111, The grest mine, capacity of 12,000 planned throughout. workings, shafts and surface structures, before the first | breakiMg of ground. Into the plans { went the newest safety.megsures. | At strategic points throughout the i workings rock dust is stored in plat- [forms easily tilted by the- slightest (rush of air from an explosion. It was | that which filled the air wlth»noncon!- bustible, non-explosive stone particle! and confined the effects to the immedi- ate vicinity of the explosign.. Ln addi- [probate of his wille'Howard was sur- tion to the piles of rock dust, the dust | vived by his widow, & som, daughter 1s tered on the fioors of the entries, wnd grandsom., .. . - . |keeping the explosive coal dust from | getting inte the air. The pahel 'system is ufled in the tmine. dimendions permitting rooms to be worked out in the coal with one | set “of - workers protected from the| others or accidents by’great barrier { plllars with comparatively small open- ings. 7 The workings are all on one level, 500.feet undercround. and the vein of ages 4 feet f_Inches in thick- orge B. Harrington, president of the company. seid that he estimated it would take 4# vears (o exhaust the coal in the new Orient. He prospected the ground before the first shaft wi sunk and planned the underground and surface work. with a hoisting tons a day, was/ Leaves $30,000 Estate. Rey. William J. Howard, who died | Decamber 30, left an estate valued at 430,000, according to the petition of his daughter, Bertha H,.Collins, for the s i dance Grotto tonight The vaudeville acts, which will inter- | sperse the dances, include Cl and waltz interpretations, tango number of Kred Wilken, will lat | at 9. | a annual G in_fune. i "Ryuth Marlonelll. Betty « | the Shaffer sisters {and the Tmperial Volpi, called on Premier Briand this morn- ing, supposedly to discuss the Italign debt, arount| francs, o $13. ¢ rate of exchange. FROM CHORLS GIRI like a novel. Sh ady in the role of A taken Metropoli her ina dr A demonstration of the Rasmussen mechanical mp Sime yesterday. Left to right: Capt. E. Prieto of Cuba. Comdr. A. adges of the National Cuoard. retired: Capt. Sabura lsoda of Japan. Carlas Ward Youns Washinzton Star Photo, d apartment shortage. nth street and Benning Wishington Star Photo. Tonight. vaudeville show and ven hy Kallipolis the Willard Hotel. A combined will he at and voca, und instrumental The Grotto Band, under the direction e a cancert Dancing will follow The. proceeds will he used the hand's expenses at the to convention in St. Louis 8315+ o'clock. efray The entertainers will he Jerry Ripp, Thornber; Tio of Baltimore. Volpi -Meets Briand. i PARIS, January /30 (#).—Count the Italian finance minister, roughly to 350,000,900 u,ngo {l the vr?:'odm TO STAR OF GRAND OPERA. £ room. | i 10 | mouth i v, | father. Helen Jane Marr | telles. which she had heaped upon his | fonn has placed her aman “hows Mary and America T the lives of foreizners traveling in Peking and Tientsin has been giv and coaches. Special zuards als Pedestrians Ask For 18-Mile Speed Limit Downtown A racommendation that the speed limit in the he reduced downtown congested from 15 will Y} to an v made Eld Columbia Association held sireet o afic Director the D destrian, Prote of a ot e ve as a result last night at 1024 Many member were favor outside mestinz sighth of the or of in inereasing ngesied 1ra ffi during to be cleared up more rapidly. There indi- cations that this would receive attention The organization, which has the indorsement and support of | dridge, pledged itself 10 enter in a campaign of education on the traffic laws and situation in W h- ington. 1t fs understood Eldridze will draw up the plan of cam paign for the association. Victor V. Martin, chairman of the visory commitiee. presided tion in the limit district to enabl the rush hours the were -stion A later - MARSHALL REGRETS STUPIDITY OF CRIME Says He Could Have Escaped Detec- tion if He Used Head—Vic- tim Is Buried. Ry the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, January The dismembered hody of Anna Dietrich was lowered in its srave in local _cemetery vesterday as her Marshall, in his cell prison. calmly di: cussed he termed his “sreat mistake” in cutting up the bod He expressed no sorrow: only re- morse. that he had not been morc t in concealing his act. 1 bungled the fob." Marshall told detectives. “If T had used my head nd thought about it for « few min- utes T wouldn't have cut up the body T wculd have zone out and hought some peison tablets, put them in her and forced them into her stomach. Then 1 could have claimed she committed sulcide and could have gotten away with it.” Miss Dietrich was buried heside her Spruce boughs and immor- A0.— May grave at Christmas time, were still fresh and green. Prior to briel funeral, services in St. Baul's Luth- eran Church, where she worshipped, the bolfy was viewed by the coroner’s Ju which is expected to return its verdict withip a few days. Twenty unigfried old ladies in Bay- FranceZanve formed‘a ufion 1o combat the high cost of Hving. NALIONAL A RAIN IS WHITEWASHED. To aveid enda accompans the The career of Mary Lewis. former Follies girl. reads ut with the Metropolitan Opera Co. Thursdas night. in “La Boheme" nd her undoubted reatest opranos pheto few of her flawers " ring the international train between coat of whitewash -locomotive train on hina en a & ‘FAIRBIG BUSINESS APPROVED BY WOiL {Mere Size Nothing Against Corporations. Labor Union Official Says. A. Phot By sated Prose NEW YORK. January Matthew W. Woll. vice president of the Ame | can Federation of Lahor, speaki vesterday before a meeting of the N tional Civic Federation. said the pe: ple of this country “must stop th'y ing of big husiness concerns national hobgoblins because large in size | _He advocated that the Federal Tra Commission be made “truly disinter ested and non-partisan. not merely v partisan and hence political.” and the let husiness concerns “‘be they want to be 1s heins they ar It is true that may nse their power tant prices.” he asserted \larm should be in | make and not in the size of the agenc | that makes the profits. The func of the Federal Trade Commissiol should be to investizate the profits ar | cost of production of big business pon | bines rather than prevent consolid tion.’ M hig The public's the profits the Woii qualifitd his approval of combinations - by saving their | practices, ethods and profits must 1 scrutinized lar intervals hy v ernmentally appointed nis whe disinterested motives could not questinned. These azents he wat have representative of all the ma productive classes Disagrees With Bankers. Mr Woll took issus with recent | statements of certain American fina ciers in prai the Fascist regin | of Ttaly, where *“the state has | solute power over the individua | politically and absolute power over the | industrial structure economically | complete reversal of our political a economic system. “American labor.” he said. "is in | total disugreement with those Ame | feans and international bankers and captains of industry who defend the Soviets at <ome polnt« wnd Fascists apparently all along the line, Thomas W. Lamont and Otto Kahn recently made addvesses here avor of the Fascist government. Acquitted of Manslaughter. lsaiah West, colored, was acquitted vesterday by a jury in Criminal Divi sion 1, before Justice Bailey, charge of manslaughter. West w driving an auto truck which was said to have collided with a wagon o | which Samuel Hart was riding. Har | was knocked off and later died | peritonitis at a hospital. Attorneys Samug) D, Truitt and J. Willlam Shas ‘appeared for the accuses