Evening Star Newspaper, January 30, 1926, Page 2

L ¥ CORCORAN EXHII WLL PEN APRIL 4 Spring Date to Be Permanent for Biennial Showing of American Work. The date of April ¢ will witness the apening of the tenth hiennial exhibi don of cotemporary American oil paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. This postponement from Deeem- | her to the earlv Spring. necessitated | this season by the centennial celebra i ‘ion exhibit of the National Academy | of Design, held a1 the local gallery | last Fall. is deemed so advantageous | that the change of date is 10 he made | permanent The lizht May. the ihe weather number of 1isit and | out: | is herter Tery is in April trustees point more suitable. the | in Washinzton is | Jarzer. and i= no interfersnce | with I Christmas holidays. | The exhibition will remain apen nuntil May 18, there or the Prospeetus Is Out. Already ing display Washingten the outstandin nf art threughout has gone forth ing entry their will not e limited of pictures to he ace picture accepted w exhibit and incl The exhihiti the prospectus of the com which is the art event of and considered one of | events in the world the United States, those contemplat works. The jury as 10 the number pted and every be <hown in the ded in the catalogue 1 will be confined. as heretofore, to original oil paintings by | living American artists. not previous Iy exhibited in Washington, and com- pleted within the past two vear Fach artist may submit as many as hree 2xamples of his ar her work As haretofore. the zenerous prize: consisting of cash. handsome medals and certificate of honorable mention will come from the fund esiahlished “hy the late Senator Willam K. Clark 'f Montana. long-time friend of the zallery. former trusiee and danor of the famed art collection which will eventualk hecome the possession of this institutien. * Ne artist may re ceive the same prize more than once. ner may he compete for a prize lower than ane already received | Option on Paintings, The Corcoran Gallery nas an option of ene week after the opening of the exhibition for the purchase of iy or all of the prize pictures. Works | hy jury memhers ave not eligible for | \wards. The jury. which passes upon . Acts as a hanging committee wards the prizes. is ronstituted 1= follows: Fdmund €. Tarhell. chair- man: John . Johansen. Jonas Lie, Leopold Revffert and Robert Spencer. . Powell Minnigerade. di tor of | ihe zallery. wi an ex Mfficio member z com mittee. From the nine exhibits held hereto. | fore aintings have heen sold. | the ags of which was 445,810 \arges no com. | mission whatever on any sales i An event of wide public interest and | of several vears standing will he a ' concomitant of the approaching ex- | nibit. This is the choice of a “popu- | Jar prize” winner hy means of hallots | -ast by all visitors 10 the gallery du ing the week of May 3. Its purp is to stimulate interast and encourage the public at large o study the exhi Hitlen with diserimination The win ar of this popular prize will receive | 0 in eash | COOLIDGE TO NAME ‘ PARLEY UNIT SOON; DELAY IS FORESEEN First the hang (Continned from Page.) the action of the Senate vest voting its approval of the $3 ap propriation needed tn defrav the ex penses of this commission participa tion in the Geneva confeve. Immediately after the conference the resident was notified that Se tary of State Kellogg had no _ Hugh Gibson. American Minister at @ Rern. Switzerland. officially to inform tha secretary general of the lLeague of Nations that the [nited Siutes | would be represented at the Geneva | conference It is nndersined that the President Aisenssed with Senator Borah ar | twn other international matters which have assumed the proportions of & prohlem for the moment One of these is thought heen the new Mexican petroleum laws. which ars nhjectionable ta the United which have heen responsible cxchange of several notes hetween ecretary Kellogg and the Mexican coverament. The Siate Department | contends that these new laws threaten | ultimate confiseation of approximately L300.000.000 in American-owned prop erty in Mexico. and that the passage | such laws was not in accordance vith the undersianding hetween rhese tve eountries when the United Siates ized Mexicn and resumed lomatic relations with her two an1s Ag0 ecretary Kellogz's notes of pro test and warpinz have apparently had veey little effect upon the Mevican iihorities. Charles B, Warren of Michigan. who was a membhe: of the American commission thai went Mexico and paved the way nition. has heen in conferen the President nnd Secretary this week rezarding the Me trouble. He is familiar with the vation and is known to have sup plied some helpful information and idvice. Mr. Warren was denied con firmation by the Senate # vear ago hen he was named hy the President he Attorney General. TRILLS IN SP.RING SONG OBTAINED BY ACCIDENT Ry the Associated Pre | LONDON, January 30.—1t iz news to many music Jovers to learn through Musical Opinion that Mendelssohn's Spring Song” originally was called Camberwell Green." The journal savs Mendelssohn visit- | ed Iingland in 1347, and stayed at Den- mark Hill with his wife's relatives. A drive to Windsor had been arranged. | hut Mendelssohn pleaded ill-health | and elected to stay at home with the children. He went to the piano and began to think. The children reseated this hreach. and when he hegan searching for a chord pulled his hands from the kevhoard. The composer had to notex as hest he cobld. whi particular characte N led to the introduction of the h triplets in the lexato melody. named the composition “Camberwell Breen.” but later changed it to *Spring Senz RUSSIAN TOUR PLANNED. RERLIN., January 29 OP).—Elisa- beth Bergner, who has starred two seasons in Shaw's “St. Joan.” is the chief attraction in the cast Max Rein- hardt has selected for performances in Moscowsand other Russian cities. Reinhardt will present the series of produetions during Spring under the =ponsor=hip af the Seelety of Friends New Ruzsigy” to have land and expecially ates and i an sit o c play some | None Believed in Great Da | ane 1ime yesterday all five men could | afternoon. the tugs spent a terrifying | perilous ice to obtain help for thelr | vesterday | ger. but thev prepa | drifred close enongh 1o the harbor, he- | 100, 4 | PROMINENT SCIENTIST | William Tufts Brigham. Director { Tutts Brigham. divector of the Bix Cracksmen opened the out the combination mechuniss safe. The safe xtood in pla EXPERTS ROB SAFE OF AUTO COMPANY Cracksmen Get $495 in Cash| and Checks From North- east Motor Firm. ceptacle by knocking off the dial and po by use of a stee! rod, whi w of the st ckers, wroking combination with) mech Expert toals, took anism out of the safe of the North Motor a20 road safec the Bladens east at burs Co northeast, last or early todav and got away approximately 3104 in cash and three checks totaling $395 The cracksman obtained taking a pane of glass from rear window. The the safe occuped entire attention, Detectives Cullinane and ©'Brien from police headguarters pro unced the rifling of the safe the work of experts. The exact amount of cash, #ccol ing to Frank E. McCaleb of 123 Twelfth street southeast, manager of the company, was not denitely known. although he sald it exceaded $100, Patice notified city and business pluces where the | checks were liable to he cashed to | be on the lookout for them. One of | the checks was for $327.30; another | for 34798 and the third for $19.45 Indications were that the place was entered before midnight. FOUR LAKE BOATS DRFTNG WITH | Police n- | tion ger—Fisherman Refused Chance to Come Ashore. late night with entrance a mbination to ically their by « prac and MELONE HEARING 5 HELD IN SECRET all banks in the Drunk, Is Sent to Juve- nile Court. ng the word of her futher. Ray of Tuledo, H. MacDonald, in walved jurisdic- Mo on the der age. Im. Milliken of the wom tovk the defendant over lto the Juvenile Court. where charges of driving while intoxicated and hav- ing ne opersior’s permit are helng made out. The case grew ont of her arvest vecenily when she drove an smobile clad in pajamas wnd a bathing suit The father refused fto the newsuwa men in e Court. ind when the questic * the girl 1477w asked, replied, really [don't know how old she How- “ver, some |the father | o Uransfer eGlone, Ju railroad man ) Geo Court 1w, Blanche il that she over lone I | mediately Serz was sn's buresu By the Associated Press MUSKE Mich.. January 30, The fishing tugs Helen N. and Indian. |z, along with the Grand Trunk car fer Milwaukee and Granghaven, drifted with the moving lce field last night and are 15 mil north of Muske gon in Lake Michizan this morning. The ships were being carried 1o the norih At the rate of three miles an hour. The Goodrich steamer A the ice south of this port. rmerly stated None of the heats is believed to be | her name {to be Bonny Kennison. will in great danger. >.,.u]|.-,.».:‘ e Judge Katherlne :::15;- T A - , | early this afternoon e s <uffic o resentativie William W. Chaimers. a uficlent food and fuel for a day. At |resentative Willlam W. Chaimers. & closeted In closed court with Judge lers. Mr. McGlone was also present. | Newspaper Men Barred. Newspajper men were again barred, night icebound in a gale on the lake. | Thursday food and fuel became ex “ ording to the unusual e hausted. and three of the eight on the two tuzs made their way across ries to say anvthing the jurisdiction abima ix in have come ashore acrpss the ice. hut they elected to remain with the ships. Caught In a blizzard Wednesday representing the defendant. Whey the defendant. her and herr sister. Velma M | <tepped out of the W father comrades, who were older men and ! unable 10 make the journey. Airplanes sent from Selfridge Field [, (,mobile in front of Police Co supplied provisions 1o the | \his mowning a batiery of Early today coast guards #aid fyeed thom. In trying to escape their of the craft was in any dan-| oy the defendant's sister siipped d to shoot a Hne |, 4 (el loxing one of her shoes in across the Helen N. as soon as she|tno rall, Picking herself up. into court with her father | ar isfer and entered the proba- | tion Ty After .Indge Macdonald was sum- ! moned. the door there was locked | and the newspaper men barred from | the secret session. A few minutes later thw star chambes proceedinge were transferred fo Judge M donald’s chambers. Reporters were again b . Drdered Out of Halls. While, waiting outside the door in the hallway ior any official announce- ment orders were given them yest day by Judge John P, siding ig a courtroom ate the hallwavs. men refused tugs. nelthe: cause she was disabled hy rudder. a broken | VICTIM OF PARALYSIS of Bishop Museum of Ethnology, Dies in Honolulu. By the Associated Press. HONOLULY, January 30;— William | " Museum of Ethnology here since 1888 | and widely known seientists, died ve: terday following a paralytic stroke. Y. to va newspaper nd they were then sym- moned tefore the bench and asked if they had received his orders. William Tufts Brigham was born in | A spokesman veplied that they had Boston in 1841 and was gradusted | receiveci the orders. but had believed from Harvard Unive in 1865/ the right of the press allowed them Afterward he was admitted to the | to wail there as long as they in no bar in Massachuseits and once was & | way interfered. Judge McMahon re. memba- of the Basten School Beard. | plied that they had no right and if He studied the botany and geology i |they d'd not immediately leave con- the Hawalian Islands in 1864 and 1865. | cempt of court proceedings might be {and four vears later Lecame a botany | taken. 1 instructor at Harvard. He was a co ‘The newspaper responding memher of many European | yaye and took anthropolezical and athnological 30- | 1pe front door of the eourt until the cieties and was the author of a dozen | ot ea''c “0eq the girl on her way or more hooks on antique sculpty Im Jurlenile Court. i men left the hall- Nestos Seeks Semate Seat. MINOT, N. Dak.. puary 30 (A, —R. A. Nestos. forgfel Republican governer of North Dakota, to an- nounced his candidacy for ted Stotoe Senator. C Hawalian culture and similar s - a2 2 FOUR KILLED IN CAVE-IN. jects. MIAMI, Okla., January /30 Four miners were killed today ifha cave-iiy at Velie No. 4 lead and zinc mine &t Cardin. v Fi information was meager. additional information by | must have been given the | of she | up their watch near | i | who ventured 30.000 or | head Jn\'cn | hotls | nostriis. iAight In an attempt to reach hin goal | A% soon ax hisplune cun be put inte | condition. | determine the reason. . be three weeks or 80 before the ship is in condition to make another try. 'POLICEMEN GUILTY | Fines of $50 Each Urged by Trial | | Policeman Raymond B. Carroll, jof irl, Accused of Driving While ! ! trial board of chargen of roughly han- ! bandits. | held. HIN MAGREADYFLGHT NEVERA HARDSHP, Was Comfortable at 80 Be- low Zero, Airman Says, After Altitude Test. TO By the Associated Press DAYTON. Ohio, January Rapid strides made in the last few years in bullding airplanes to ascend to great heights have done away with many of the thrills and havdships of a flyer taking a plane six or eight milen above the earth’s surface. This w exemplified Lieut. 1 Macready's wet a new world altitude MeCook Field here. In a plane designed and built at the fleld. Macready ascended to a height | of 36.900 feel. His goml wam 10,000 teet, or approximately eight miles above theearth. but the supercharger on the molor of his €XO.5 ship fatled to funetion as 1t should. Two or thres years ago an aviator 000 feet up in the air usually came down In a semi-exhausted condition. suftering in tensely from the extreme cold. vesterday In attempt to record at Comes Down Smiking. Macready. however, smilingly step- | ped out of hix plane vesterday. as if | he had fust made a practice cireuit | over the field. He posed for a few pictures and then 1old his experiences in & matter of fact manner He didn’'t have all the comforix of home In the cramped it of 1he mirplane. nor was he xs comfortable as in ordinary fiving. but he felt no ill-effects whatsoever, aven though he bumped Into » temperature of 80 de grees below vern Fahrenheit He was awathed in clothes and his and i were completely cav erad with a thickly pudded fying mask. The clothes kept him warm. but in addition. he had a very eMclent heater the cockpit—a flexible tube running hack from the motor's | exhaust He had almomt normal breathing atmosphere in the rarified | air. because a tank of oxvgen. with & 1ube inserted through his Aving mask suppliel him with geod air at any aititude. Kurs Were Affected. his ears and the up above the ears didn't get comparatively speaking. When he ched 33,000 feet. the fiver said. his ears folt like they were aMiciad with dus 1o the light pressure. Bui | he has tun into that condition often | on_his test fights When he reached an altitude around ”6.000 feet on the descent. he | “blows out his ears” by pinching his | and quickly places another helmet over his head and face Macready is xolng 10 make another Only head st his top of his ockpit #wnd very eold ol i Engineers ut the field have not Aigured out why the supercharger led. It may take them a week to It probably will OF BEATING BRITTON Board on Post 0fice Worker's Complaint. Detective Fuller L. Arrington and hmbi dry quad, the police the seventh precinet have been found guilty by dling Alexander T. Britton, chaffeur, without justifiuble cause. on the night of January 1S. The findings were reported today to Maj. Edwin R. Hesse, superintendent of police, with a recommendation thut a fine of be imposed upon each. The convie officers have four daya in which appeal Brifton, who lives in Chevy Chase, Md.. was walking to the Georgetown post office after putting hix truck in the garage about 11 o’clock i night when Arrington and Carroll, mistak ing him, they sald, for & bandit. shouted to him 1o stop. Britton, be lieving he was being held up by broke Inte & run with the officers pursuing. The officers followed him through the post office doors, short distance away nd. according 1o witnesses there, caught the postal em ploye and beat him before his fellow workers in the office could explain who he was. Britton's injuries caused him to remain a from work for several days. DEBT BOD.IES MEET. Americans postal | ) and Jugeslavs Grounds for Agreement. The American and Jugoslav debt funding commissions met at the Treasury today fo further negotiate over the .Jugosiav debt of 368,000,000 to this country. The firat offer of the Jugoslivs has been answered by the Americans and it was understood that at the meeting this merning efforts would be made to bring the two points of ‘view closer to- geth.r. Details of the positions taken by both governments have been with- Seek — CANNING PLANT BURNS. $10,000 Damage by Fire of Un- known Origin Near Easton, Md. Special Dispatch to Tha Star. FASTON, Md.. January 30.—The large canning plant of Perry & Walk- er, three miles from this city. was practically destroyed by fire early this morning. The loms is estimated at $10.000. Tomatoes and corn left on hand when the plant waa closed at the end of the weason last October were among the contents of the building. The fire was of unknown origin. Smdénts Shave In Class, Evening Score With Girls By the Associated Press. BERKELEY, Calif., January 30. —The principle of equal rights for men has heen established at the University of California. Prof. Ira B. Crosa recently expressed annoy- ance at the time taken from studies by feminine students powdering their noses and freshening their countenanc He wald hoys had an equal privilege, snd rights if they desired them. Yesterday two men appeared with ving equipment and when ! him Ihecame ATURDAY rom left t their sta Ensign Duran, ( . Duran was left LANDS D. C. MAN Raymond = .( Shannon | Gets Call to Solve Fever Cause in Country. lade Friend of Greatly| Hated Insect During Early Life Here. shington's much malisned mos Ray- Instead of swat es always have & fascinated i Shannan ing them on his bovhood hikes in the voods & it the District, he caught m and “got scquainted ¢ hax become = well acquainted with the mosguito and iix hab the Argentine government has me down there Argenting mosquitn campalzn 1o stamp out such hiseases ax nelaria and vellow fever He left today with his wife for Buenos Aires on this unusual and iierative mission. according to an an nouncement by he Smithsonian In stitutlon, wfth which Mr. Shannon has PR e e et the Career Ix Remarkable. | This vonng scientisthe ix but | has had & remarkable career. Left an orphan while inx boy. he has tizen to a place of e e in the field of entomolugy thi his own <heer pluck. It was In recognition of his extraordinasy attainments 1 | the Rockefeller Foundation of New | York recommended the voung scien- | st to the Argentine kovernment for the special work outlined. The foun dation i paving the expenses of Mr. | Shanoon and hix wife to South Amer- | ica, and it will bring him back when the work is completed, two or three | vears hence b Ruy hike, per: Shannon ax a bov liked to When he wax not selling news. | or doing odd jobs at 1 Ktation, or earning money after school in other ways he would xet out fr | his home at 619 H street and go “col-| tecting Hix fowiermother, M= | Sugan 1. McCormick, did not ,vh\:«\“ relish Rav's “finds."* which ranged | from bird eggs to crawfish. Par tienlarly did Ray like to catch bifgs, and he kept his room litered with all kinde of insects, living and dead. Worked Way Through School. Meanwhile Ray began to work hi wav through school. He obluined ein ployment in the of Ent ology of the De of Agri culture and attended Emerson Instl- | tute @t night. Then he entered Cor nell University, with the assistance of | one of the Government sclentisix Hix interest in biology attracted the attention of his instructors, and he | | yeniher of a speclal entomalogical | His studies | and he | Camp expedition to California. 'e interrupted by rhe war, a buck private at JANUARY REGARD FOR MOSQUITOES o {of the 30, 1926, ish aviation history mdr. Ramon Franco am hehind on today’s hop. A their attempt to AS BOY ARGENTINE POST RAYMOND €. SHANY Meade of hisx pr transferved His superic iciency officers learned in entu zy and him, against his will, to wedical Taboratory of the camp. e was about to be commissioned at the Yale Medical Sch the srmisties was signed, Shunnon then retirned ana was graduated. He fuli-fledged member « Staff of the Bureau Last January he when to college was made a the scientific of Entomology. was married and k his bride to spe on their honevimoon. Mrx. nnon » was interested in entomology, and the cou ple visited moxt of the large musenms f Europ Took Special Training. Fur the past two vears Mr. Shan- non hus been taking special training in the study and classification of flies and mosquite under the supe vision of Dr M. Aldrich, curat of the division of insects of the Na tional Museum, under the direction mithsonian Institution He has been working with Dr. Harrison . Dyar, the foremost anthority the world on the mosquitoes of N and South America ““There are many quitoes,” the cunoinced o numbe ax dise be t: varieties of mos. mithsonian ay, “but v w small n fre ous to man riers fore steps ean ken to stamp out diseaxes thus carvied. a complete and aceurate classification of the mosquitoes of any JUBLEY contempiating such a cam- paign must be made tu determine which are harmful. Thix classifiea selected, while still & student, ax |tion forms the basis of all future work | by public health departments. ‘““Thix_important task Mr. Shannon will perform for the Argentine gov- srnment.” JOIINSON-SCHALL | CONTEST STORMY | | Senate Hearing Brings Gnrge‘ That Election Fight Witnesses Were “‘Bought.” | | The Senate subcommittee consider- ing the contest hetween Senater Schall and former Senator Magnus of Minnesota held a storm vesterday, during which it W | sary for the chairman freqyently to | call counsel for both conteptants to| order. The lawvers were warned the | committee would not open the “flood gates of rumor.” The attomneys were fold to confine themselves © the legal rules of evidence. This brought @ rebuke upon the commitiee itself from sutorneys for Magnus Johnson, who charged that thelr witnesaes either had been “hbought off or intimidated” because of & committee ruling that forced them to name five witnesses holding the key to their case before the com- mittee would start the inquiry. This charge came im the midat of the testimony of W. Frank Corneaby of Minneapoils, who tyrned out to be a witness for Senator Schall. although he had been summoned by Johnson's counsel with the view o proving their charge that Schall's campaign fund had been supported by’ bootleggers. Corneaby said he ‘was a voluniary worker during the 'Schall campaign and that Senator 8chall had no knowl: edge of hie operationa. He denied that he was the collector of funds from bootleggers, and said he had only a slight acquaintance with the Senator. i INSTRUCTOR 1S OUSTED. U. ot P. Man P'ailed to Report Injury tp Student. PHILADELPHIA. January 30 (®).— Thomas J. Pennifigton of Douglass. Kans., has heen iismissed from the teaching staff ol the University of Pennsylvania fol his failure to notify the university *llh»ril(e of a breach of discipline an N. Kessler of an inju % Angeles, a student. Kensler partfcipated in a party Neg Year eve and /was found unconscio the next day/ by Pennington, an in- ly a week ldter that Kessler's spine was dislocated in a manner still un- explained. Pennington said he did not Prof. Cross started his lecture they lathered and shaved. Prof. Cross led the applause, saying if they would make their names known to him—he was unable to recognize them under the lather—he would B e i realize Kebsler was injured, believing he was suffering only from drinking. Kessler was taken hame this week. | her to Charles | structor in Féglish. It developed near- | CAFE ENTERTAINER KILLS WOMAN OF 81 She Admits Slaying Benefactress and Expresses Wish to Die in Chair. By the Assos SAN DT od Press. 0, Calif., January 30— Mrs. Tessie Pena, 22-vear-old horder | caharet entertainer, hi confessed to the murder of Mrs. Frances 1. Cole, Sl.year-old henefactre: and in 18 places, was found in her home, at National City, near here, Thursday. “Yes, I did It." the police quoted Mrs. Pena as saving last night. “~She said by mother's picture looked like a bad woman's. 1 suppose they'll try to give me life imprisonment. but I want to go to the chair. I don't want t0 be thinking of this the rest of my life.”" Mrs. Pena, who had lived with Mrs. Cole. was arrested in a cabaret acrosa the horder early yvesterday. deported ‘0 the United States as an undesirable alien, and rearrested at the horder on a charge of murder. Institution ! wants to die in the electric chair. The | | body of Mrs. Cole, stabbed and slashed ) cated | nomination | tion JUDIIAL NOMINEE SLURS ROOSEVELT “Not Good American” Be- cause He Advocated Re- eall of Decisions. The assertion that Theodo vell was not a goud American be cause. as the Ryll Moose candidate for Premident in ‘1912, he had adve JUthe recall of judiclal deci ons,”" was made by ze McCamant. testifving vest fore the Senate judiciary committee The commit is considering the of Judge MeCamant far the cirenit hench of Oregon his declaration aroused the ire Senator Johnson. Republican fornia. running mate with Ror and who is o, & Jdudge MeCam ANt'S confirmation on the gronnd tha he violated # pledge to the \ Oregon 1o support for the Republi presidential nomination in 1970 1ie candidate who won out in the Oregor primaries, ters of ored as “Unfie,” Declaring that any such views regurding ‘anfit” to sit on the bench of highest Amerkan Conrt. save (he preme Court, Senator Johnson xa If any man who says Rousevelt wasx not & good Amerienn can be confirmed by the Senate of the United Statex as a judge of the courts of the United States wani 0 know ir." Roosevelt's name was hrou the discussion by Senaior after Judge McCamant had letter in which he stated delegate to the 1920 Chica he could not support man who rxevelt hetd wax f nt inte Jobnsor read that as » conve | fornia Senator { | | 10U hecause he was “nof k90d American.” sifce he had adve vated “the recall of judicial decisions in violation of # fundamen:al prine ple underlying the American Govern | meit | | | Camant | hearing Asked by Senat he based such & conclusion. Judge M referred to the plank in the Bull se platform on this suhject M. Quentin's Name Mentioned. Senator Caraway, Democrai, Ar kansus. demanded 10 know if the fn ist had the same views on the icanism of Quentin Roosevelr the laie President. wheo action in Franee. never heard he expressec visws on the recall of judicial 0 retorted Judge Mc€amant The discussion revolving around Roosevelt came as the climax a that furnished several mild ns. and which was concluded Ame son vas killed ir. that <ensati ax the only witnese. Afiar mony hax heen printed tee will reconsider the nomination ich it acted faveiably onece. and which was referred hack to it by the Senate two wecks ago after Senatnr the testi the commit the floor. ISOVIETS IN TURCOMAN PAYING HIGH FOR WIVES Scarcity of Women Acute, Is Re- port, Men Outnumbering Them Two to One. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, January There is |#n acute scarcity of women in thethe shadow of our sw new Turcoman Soviet Socialist re- public. The men outnumher the women nearly 2 to 1, and in con sequence, the price of women and irla taken In marriage has increased from $300 to $1.000. Where real currency is not availe able the parents of a girl of mar- rigeable age accept came Girlg ranging from 10 to 16 vears old cost from 5 to 30 camels, depending upom the means of the prospective brides sroom and his family. In this primitive, backward coun- try camels form the principal medium of currency. A Turcoman with 1,000 camels is considered wealthy, while one with 5000 is looked upon as a i millionaire. Handbags in the shape of dolls, the purse helng concealed in the dresses, are seen in London. By the Assoclated Press. PIKEVILLE, Ky. January 30.— Kirk of Paintaville won the right ntest for the seat formerly occu- | pied by John W. Langley in Congress i when the Republi- can congressional convention, In ses- sion her:, nomi nated hira on the sixty - second _bal- lot. His runner- {up was Mrs. John | W. Langle { of the former con- gressman. Judge Kirk's nominaticn “broke la deadlcck that | had existed all day, which necessitated a night session. The final vote | was between Judge [Kirk and Mrs. yps paNeLEY. Langley. Mrs. Langley said: candidate because my “I became = husband was A reputation for widdom may be ac. quired mz: nwu{d!u_sbq‘wwuy_ of elected for the term nd he thought J 1 should have it. T have fought Mrs. Langley Beaten on 62d Ballot By District Rep ublican Convention shall continue to do so. I shall take my fight to the people. I am a candi- date in the August primary whether L am nominated or not.” Mrs. langley congratulated Mr. Kirk following *his nomination. Kirk's democratic opponent is J. C. Cantrell, Pikeville attorney, who was nominated a week ago at Hazard. Polish Observance Planned. National observance on October 18, 1926, of the 150th anniversary of. the entry of Kosciuszko, Polish general and statesman, into the American Continental Army was proposed in a joint resolution vesterday by Repre- sentative Hickey, Republican, In- diana. 3 Actress Seeks Mayoralty. CEDAR RAPIDS, lowa, January 30 (). —Miss . Effie, Cherry, member of the Cherry Sisters’ vaudeville team. famous 30 years age, has entered the race for mayor.’<Amd she is for a 9 o'tlock town, ‘Honfe, Sweet Home,™ the Republiean party foy 20 years and for the at that hour, cleaner from Spain to South America. * Capt. Rulz Alon, photo taken a few days hefore an | Theodore | the Cali. | Johnson an what | 'ate in the day with Judge MeCamant Johnson had made his first fight on | COAL MEN ASKED - T0 GVE COST DATA ,‘ .. ‘Congressional Committee to | Meet Today to Receive Figures in District. The joInt congressinnal investigating. retail coal pr i | Washington will resume its ses-ions in the room of the Senate District com mittee, in the Capitol, this afternaor The investigators are meeting for the express pirpose recelving enator M. M. Neely requested Ward vt chabrman of legisia committee of the Mer chants’ Board of I | At the time the request was @ | M. Geiffith said it might take {anditors three duvs 1o prepare the fig- {fures demanded. I possible, Mr. Grif i fith said, he would have the data on {hand by this afternoan. 1'nless M iflith has the information. Senator Capper said this morning [ble the committee will adjourn in mediately to meet some fime next week. Senatar Capper said he did ne Know of anv other witnesses wishins 1o appear at this time commitiee a0me ade, 1o subm Treadway Measure. What | opening tion of i country House tive fer ret der Mr ago admittedly he wedg coal made its sterday Treadwa bill sale of strict Treadway o Intere sional investigs plan but it met tion from a m on the commiitee The plan proposed way would here sion | hurean | Aer the administy Cominissioners he in activg ch: Licenses would those dealers | from time tc showing p and all data into consumers of \Washi might Federal throughout ppearance in when Rept les 1 a which 14 pl ! in Washington vernment re ught several the joint congres ng committee in the with strong ohjec of the un. or “ nators Tread dealers we hy administration the Dist tion of bhe aggree time chaxe prices actus cosis entering of coal the n Might Revoke Li r Shaould stration discover between the husir price of a dealap. the veferred 1o the District The Commissioners prove the finding of { could command dealer | reductic It the dealer {license might be revoked or be finded from $500 to $1.000 to prison for six months arding the seriousness of the ch The hill in evious bills by which he regula The the hurean price and selli matter would be Amissioners should they ap ipervis: ) make sed. his he m! Jased he Mr o pro the whole measue t of Colum he was con ar_ investigatior noww going on Washington were held throughout the United the need of identical legislation ¢ cities would be foind to he | dway | vide Feder fuel indus spplies onl but esent 1 fre spe { fident that if a sin M dway expressed helief 1h Washiagton reiailers are profiteeri He also said he was confident 2 | eral investization would show profiteer g wherever coal is hurned. He he [ i therefore. that if the hill is adopted for the District. out of com mon justice It would have to he ex pinded to cover sales every { Where, and for these reasans he fn tends 1o press the Hamnse Distrie | mittee for immediate hearins < 1o hring the measure o the finar the House while the fuel emer ency is still acute. 'MUSSOLINI'S PLEA | FOR ARMY GRANTED | Deputies Vote to Back Peace by an ) 1 Sword as Premier Warns. B (he Assoriated Pres ROME. Januar The Ttalian | *hamber of Deputies at this morning's session approved the army i zation bill. which was supported Premier Mussolini in # speech evening The premle desires peac | the Locarno agreements | recognized “that the skies have he come populated with prodigions ah planes and that new and deadly arms re appearing in the sea “Therefore.” he added. “T think 1 must say that. as in the Garden of Islam. peace is oniy sure when unde as The premier announced that 76 resi ments are to he stationed in the chief cities of the provinces. ‘regardlems of pravers in the cathedrals and pro cessions in the streets. all of which will he ugeless.” He also said thar 11 extra regiments are be stationed “at fitting place. | | 1 said that. while Italy and has participated in it must he | ! Hobart's Condition Unchanged. Special Dispateh to The Star CUMBERLAND, Md. —George V. Hobart, the playwright continues in a critical condition Alleghany Hospital, where he is suf fering from heart and kidney com. plications. January at Today in Congress Senate. The tax bill continued hefore the Senate when it convened at noon. The subcommittee on privileges and elections heard further testi mony in the Schall-Johnson na- torial contest. The judiciary committee will hold an executive meeting this after- noon. The District committee is sched- uled to resume hearings this after- noon on the price of coal. HOUSE., Judiclary subcommittee of House District committee continued hear- ing on McLeod bill to aholish eapi- tal punishment. Justice Walter 1. McCoy of District Supreme Court and Judze Mary O'Toole of Municf- pal Court, witnesses. ChairmansMe- Leod announced Clarence Darrow and Lewis E. Law, former superin tendent of Sing Sing, will be wit- negses when the hearings are re- sumed on Monday. Deficiency ropriation bill to be reported og Monday. Subcommittees on State and Jus- tice, Commerce and Labor continue hearings on appropriation bills. Hearing on Virgin Islands before insular affairs committee, Admiral Moffett. witness hefore naval Affalrs committee an $14,000,- 900 air bullding program. Secretary Hoover witnéss aon Aeeper waterways before rivers and harbors committee in cAnucus room , 6f House Office Building. i