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2 » CREW 0F 20 VD AFTERSHPHRECK Taken From Storm-Torn Boat in Atlantic—Another in Distress—One Ashore. By the Associated P NEW YORK, February 1.—The crew of the Dutch freighter Alkaid, Ly the storm about 1,000 Newfoundland, was res the Hamburg-American The crew consisted | abied miles ez today by Carl Graalfa of 4 officlals of | Line of the! nforn American aken aboard,” said well. To proceed the third Sunday “ron wn were res stan by the liner ighter foundered ile all of the An cued Gosevelt a few days was tin the ago A ment fax fron itch to the depart- rd fisher t Hali Nausica reported e from the steamer bound The messa was re- id of the it went ashore near Dela- water with 400 five-gallon ol on board. Its crew was believed to have been lost at sea. Coast Ship Safe. The coastwise steamer Corsica was gafe in port at Boston today after los sng both anchors off Cape Cod and runrir > full speed astern wll ep from be ing d ship made port esce ore. The WO tugs. “ht of Georgetown, 3 andy Hook s to ribbons, the deck away hoisting cutter Seneca 120 miles off es and carried “oast Guard ce her in tow ight United States Navy submarine ym the storm after z ay night off the Flor- ida keys out of fuel RESCUE SHIP KEACHES PORT. w Saved From Sea Laud Work of Bremen. QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, February ). —An rescue ship—the B d iner Bremen— Teached port today, bringing with her Kix battered seamen, snatched from the maw of the storm-lashed Atlantic. As was the case with the President Rooseveit and her gallant crew, the | Bremen was given an _enthusiastic Wwelcome, but the survivors of the| British freighter Laristan were in a | mood far from the hilarity displayed by those rescued from the Antinoe. | Over them hung the shadow of the | fate of their 25 comrades who went | down with the Laristan before Capt. Wurpts of the Bremen and his men were able to complete their work of rescue. To a welcoming delegation of Irish government officials and repres tives of public bodies, who aboard the Bremen from a tender early this morning, the German cap- tain said: “We regret very continued attempts poor men w ter The survivors expressed admiration for the efficiency of the German crew and gra ude for the courtesy and at- tention she them aboard the Fremen Six of ( 1 Nor much that our to rescue these not crowned with bet- | suces: one of the six, h 1 were the Kaiser himself.” All toid of the narrow escapes they had while being tal nking Sreighter and paid tribute to the cour: of their rescuer: DEMOCRATS PLAN ACTIVE CAMPAIGN AT PARTY DINNER (Continued from First Page.) egalnst the tariff on the ground that | the farmers are discriminated against, having to buy in a highly protected market and being compelled to sell | their products in a market which is largely governed by world prices. Hull Scores Tariff, Mr. Hull fired another shot at the' Republican tariff today, introducing a | resolution directing the House ways and means commiitee to begin hear- ings immediately with a view to re- porting a bill or bills amending the metal schedule, the textile schedule | and othy hedules. He 1ssued a blast declaring that “four-fifths of the Fordney-McCumber 1tariff rates are| obsolete or useless from the stand-| point of either revenue or appreciable competition, while most of the remain- ing rates "are either excessive or prohibitiv The Democrats also will attack the Republican administration, charging that it is the friend of big business and that it is dominated In its policles by the big industrial and banking in- terests of the country. orts _will be made to show that the White House has sought to control unduly | the administration of the Tariff Com- mission and the Federal Trade Com.| mission for sike of these big interests. But the Democrats are still lookin Hike Mr. Macawber, for “something to turn up.” They are hopeful that the farm problem is going to prove too hard a nut for the Republicans to erack at the present sesston of Con- | gress. They believe there may be some political ammunition to be de. rived from the Ttalian and other debt settlements now in the process of rati- fication Firm denfal that there was any talk &t the dinner last night of candidates for the presidency in 1928 was made by those who attended. They insisted that the Democrats are giving thelr entire attention now to the election of & Democratic Senate and a Democratic 1, and are letting the 1928 campaign take care of itself. The “points” of Gov. Al Smith, of Gov. Ritchie of Marvland and of other prominent Democrats who have been mentioned In connection with the presidency were not discussed, they said. Roosevelt Encouraged. If Clem Shaver should retire from the chairmanship of the Democratic ; mational committee his successor will come from the West or the North, it was intimated today. This, It 18 be. Meved, would be better politics than selecting a man from the South. Mr. Roosevelt was in Washington on his way to Florlda. Mr. Roose- velt issued a statement following the dinner, in which he sald: “ feel greatly encouraged by what bes been toid me concerning efforts | ers expect to as | endeavor to wipe off the party debt, | amounting | committee 1 ‘ i Wife of Slayer. DAVID MARSHALL, id Marshall, who Is said to have mfessed to the marder of Anna May Dietrich in Philadelphia. SHOWDOWN IN TAX BLL FIGHT NEARS Measure Laid Aside for Time Today to Permit Action on Minor Issues. When the Senate met paused for a few hours in its c eratlon the tax reduction t se of some of the bills ths rccumulated on the calendar he World Court debate began. man Smoot of the fi will call up the tax bill sver, during the afterncon. today, it nsid 1 to| have | e Chair- ain, how- The tax reduction fight, centering | on proposed repeal of the inheritance | ax and discontinuance of the pub-| lelty of income tax payments, wili reach a showdown this week. | Expressing confidence that the Sen ate would approve the compromise be. ween Republican and Democratic r ulars, as embodied {n the finance com- mittee’s report on the and inciud- ing repeal these two provisions, Chairman Smoot of the committee predicted a final vo'e would be reach- ed by Saturday night. | This is several days earller than the February 10 dead line set the chairman for the bill, and if action is not obtalned by irday night Senator Smoot sald he would press for | night sessions next week to speed up he work. Under this program, lead ure final enactment of the bill by March 15, when first income tax installments are due. All non-controversial {tems have been | disposed of in the three days the bill has been under consideration by the Senate. On the most serfous contests now in | nrospect, those involving repeal of the inheritance and publicity provisions, party lines are not expected to pre- vafl. Chairman Smoot and other Re- publicans ot the finance committee, as | well as a majority of the Democratic | members, tavor both propositions while Senator Norris, Republican, Ne- | braska, is leading the fight against| cepeal of the publicity provision and | enator Couzens, Republican, Mich. | igan, for retention of the present in-| s | heritance rates. ance committee | ¢t THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1926. OLIGE RIVALRY END 1S DEMANDED Hesse Speaks at First Roll Call of Precinct De- tectives Today. “There will be no more stealing of credit for cuses,” Maj. Edwin Hesse, superintendent of police, said em phatically at the first meeting of precinct - detectives at the District Bullding this_afternoon, which was also attended by many of the precinet ptains and other police official “We have decided upon this roil call of precinet detectives in order to end he f co-operation between elements of the Police Department continued Maj. Hesse. “From now on there must be no more jealousy shown between precinct men and headquar- ters men. Our prime duty is serviee to the public and hereafter there must be the greatest co-operation between all elements of the Police Depart ment.” Heard Order Given Maj. Hesse sald that within the past two weeks he heard an order #iven at detective headquarters to one of the detectives, “Hurry out and beit th precinct men to this c j. Hesse also decly Washington police fo cleanest force in the whol Inspecta Henry G. Pratt, detectives, out 1 the detectives the purpo of the ¥ voli call and told them that they were to have equal privileges with head quarters men in having access to all records at ctive headquurters. A Supt. of Police Charles Ivans, in emphasizing the need for this co-operative ne, said that there were hundreds of thousands of cases on police records of which no known disposit being caused through a la ing res; isibility. It will be the duty of the precinct detectives, he said, handle all of the small losses reported to_police. “The man who reports n small loss or damage is entitled to just the me ation as the man who suffers Inspector Evans the ‘he to k of plac- Complaint from Col. Frederick A nning, Commisstoner in cha police was mad: to the roup (hiot Inspector ns, who sald that on a wumber of occasions Col. Fenning had found police officials in charge of pre cincts not in uniform, as required by regulation. ) Sergt. C. C. Wise, who has heen d in charge of the daily roll call t precinet ¢ tives, explained 0 the men the ch: cter of certain cases which he assigns specifically to them. MOVES TO RELIEVE D. C. COAL SITUATION BLOCKED IN SENATE (Continued from First Page) riod represents the high tide in coal | les and the remainder of the year comparatively slack. MINERS' LOSS HEAVY. By the Associated Press. _ PHILADELPHIA, February The hard coal strike entered its month today with the deadl ap- parently as tight as when the sus- pension was ordered. It has already cost the 158,000 mine workers approximately $142.450,000 In s and has caused a_curtailment in coal production of 31,980,000 tons. The loss of the ope in profits and the c of maintenance and other expenses in connection with the | upkeep of the mines has never been | for a militant and united Democratic | policy. The willingness and unselfish- | ness shown by the leaders in my con- versations with them make m> be- | lieve these gentlemen, in the absence of an active national committee. as | the exponents of Democratic pany\ policy will by frequent consultations | achieve unity of action on important | issues. \ “It seems almost Inevitable that | there will follow a meeting of the national committee in the Spring for the definite purpose of planning an ac- tive campaign of education through. | out the country on party policies and the reasons therefor. This is the first | step in the congressional campaign. | Of course, steps will be taken to place | the national committee on & firm busi- | ness basls Since the last national campaign Chairman Shaver has engaged in an to some three hundred thousand dollars. He has insisted upon the utmost economy in expendi- ture until this could be accomplished. Some of the Democratic leaders, how- ever, have been restive under this | policy, believing that the national should function actively from one campaign to the next. { | i U. 8. Flyers Reach Cuba. | HAVANA,, Cuba, February 1 (#).— Twenty-five United States seaplanes arcived at Mariel, a port some dis- tance west of Havana, yesterday. Dispatches from Mariel y that the airen expect to continue their fight to Guantanamo. made public. Loss to the hard coal carrying railroads in gross revenucs s _estimated at $90,000.000. Except that operators and miners have resumed their conferences ther is nothing to indicate that peace near. The negotiators, however, have rejected plan after plan, and when they adjourned Saturday to meet 4 tomorrow they had thrown the d?finlle peace proposal into the rd Saturday the question of arbitration still was the chief stumbling block Wilkes-Barre has developed a group of ‘‘operator-miners,” who also are working a_mine near Devils bow, abandoned Red Ash Coal Co. of striking miners are engaged in the work. Tunnels are being timbered and driven by modern mining methods and from 80 to 125 tons of coal are being brought to the surface dally and carted to consumers. A year ago the Red Ash Co. sur rendered its charter and dissolved, owing to a fire in the lower veins of its workings which could not be brought under control. So far the “squatter miners” have not been molested, the authorities in Laurel Run Borough, in which the land s located, refusing to interrupt the mining on the ground that the 1 last dis company is non-existent and no taxes | have been paid for two years. Four men were killed yesterday at Archbald while digging coal to keep | thelr families warm. Only one of them was an experfenced miner, the others belng carpenters. A huge boulder overnanging a stripping oper- | ation on East Mountain crushed out their lives. AND THE CAL, I SAYS TO THE PRINCE [ Five ™E STEN, ANDY, T NEED BUCKS AND AS You'Re = SECRETARY OF e MUTT=JEFF w WASHINGTON \%i{¥® THIS n had been made, this | to! A group | GARE S ENIINED N ORATORY TET ;Partici'pants in National Competition Given Advice as to Preparation. Participants in the National Ora- | torical Contest are urged to consult | their teachers in selecting books from ! which to obtain material for use in | preparing their orations. As a general rule contestants are advised against |attempting to cover too many books in their preliminary reading, particu- | tarly those of great length. It has been found that the most ctical way to go about the prep: tion of the fons Is to use the en lopedias and the regular school work in history classes for the general background. Thereafter the con- testant should read one or more rea brief books for specific ma In many instances teache and pupils have applied to this news. paper for a bibliography designed pri to meet the special require- of a project of this character. The lists which follow are submitted inr ponse to that request. Books Adapted to Contest. Of these lists the one designated as pecific’ contains books which are brie nd which are particularly adapt ed to the requirements the contest- ant: Among these Citadel of Freedom,” by Randolph Leigh, direc tor of the contests, deals with the gen- eral subject of the Constitution and ko devotes a chapter to each of the ibliozraphical subjects showing their relationship to the Constitution. was written expressly for the 1923 con- <t with which this movement began, ind has been used in succeeding con- ests be 15« its speclal appleca- bilfty. The “bibliographical” list speaks for {tself. All of these books, except the one on Marshall (4 vols.) and the one on Franklin (2 vols), are in one volurm The “general” list contains | books dea « broad subject Lot istitut Govenment, rather than the specific subjects of the ora- tion: T | Specific List. e €. A. "An Economic Inter. pre of the Const U (MacM | scribes the dr | the movemen: { ment and shows the effect which they | had on the Constitution and on its uent developr Max | ) tion of the Un Press), actual re fon. Shows how were blended seroof. The Critical Period ¢ American History” (Houghton, Miffiin), 353 pag Deals primarily with the bridging of the gap between of Confederation and the ptaine in addition ormation and adop- i 1 lists follow { on the e utional cony | ting pros | he results | | i iske, Jonn Constitution. the story of the | tion of the C i The Citadel of , 210 pages. By tional oratorical Designed to bird's-eye view of our constitutional { development. Appendix contuins the | three prize-winning orations of the 1924 contest. Maurer and Jones. contest The Constit * (Heath), 1 cusses fundamentals of the stitution and develops in detail importance of the bill of rights. Also Includes 100 questions on the Consti. tution. Mr. Jones Is the head of the historp department of the schools of the District of Columbia. Thorpe. F. N. “A Short Constitu- tional History of the United States™ | (Little, Brown), 39 development of th: in Ame Describes the formation, adoption and ratification of the Fed. eral Constitution in detall. Biographical List. Beveridge, A. J.. The Life of John Marshall; Houghton, Miffiin. Ford. Henry Jones, Washington and His Colleagues; Yale University Press. ard, The Life of James Doubleday, Page. F. S., Alexander Hamilton; | Archibald, Constable. " Nicolay and Hay, Abraham Lin- | coln; Century Co. | son, T. E Thomas Jefferson | Wheeler, E. P, Putnam. |~ Parton, James. Life and Times of Franklin; Houghton, Miffiin. | General List. Andrews, I. S., Manual of the Con- stitution; American Book Co. | " Baker, J. F., Federal Constitution: | Putnam. Life and Times of Appleton. Daniel Webster; George, History of the ation of the Constitution; Ap- pleton. Beard, C. A., Economic Origins of Jeflersonian Democracy; Macmillan. Beck, J. M., Constitution of the United States; Doran. Beveridge, A. J., Crusade Against the Supreme Court: Bobbs. | Bryce, James, American Common- wealth; Macmillan. Bryce, James, The Predictions of | Hamilton and De Tocqueville, Johns | Hopkins University Studies. Burgess, J. W., Changes in Constl- tutional Theory; Columbia Univer- sity Pre: Butler, Nicholas M., Why Change Our Form of Government?; Scribner. Cloud, A. J., Our Constitution; Scott, Corwin, E. 8., The Constitution and Its Meaning; Princeton University Press. Curtis, G, T., Constitutional History of U. S.; Harper. Dobb, W. F., U. S. Constitution; Cambridge University Press. Elliott, Edwafd, Blographical Story jof the Constitution; Putnam. Gettell, R. G., Constitution of the U. S.; Ginn. Holst, H. E. Von, Constitutional and Political History: Gallaghan. McLaughlin, A. C., Confederation and the Constitution: Harper, Moran, T. F., Formation and Devel- opment of the Constitution; Barrie. Plerson, C. W., Our Changing Con- stitution; Doubleday, Page. Ransom, W. L., Majority Rule and the Judiciary; Scribner. Schlesinger, A. M. Economic As- pects of the Movement for the Con- stitution; Macmillan. Scauyler, Robert L., Constitution of the U. S.; MacMillan. Smith, J. A., Spirit of American Government; Macmillan. Tocqueville, Alexis De, The Federal Constiiution; World Classics, Vanbenburg, A. H., If Hamilton Were Here Today; Putnam. Wilson, Woodrow, Constitutional Government in the U. S.; Lemcke. Norton, T. J., The Constitution of the U. S.; Little, Brown. ORATORY TEST ATTRACTS. High School Students at Surrattsville Show Enthusiasm. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLINTON, Md. February 1.—Stu- dents of Surrattsville High School here are manifesting much interest in the third national oratorisal contestand the first international oratorical con- test for secondary schools which is be- ing sponsored in the District of Co- lumbla and nearby Maryland and Virginia counties by The Star. ‘There is much enthusiasm among It| e contestants | | i Above: police. Gutted room In Victoria fire, where imperiled by work of admitted fire-bug. 5 Harold ople’s lives were Below: . Marsh, held by COOLIDGE FLAYED } ON TRUST ATTITUDE | BY SENATOR KING | (Continued from First Page.) YOUTH HELD IN FIRE THAT IMPERILED 75; (Continued from First Page.) have when one man purchases all of the farmers’ products and sells all of the bread and other foodstuffs to the consumers,"” said Senator Norris. THOMPSON TO ASK PROBE. Trade Commission Member Says High Aims Don't Justify Combine. bruary 1.—The New York American today says that Hus n Thompson, member of the Federal de Commission, wi ek an inves. dgation into the new $500.000,000 Ward Food Products Corporation. Willlam Ward, its organizer and president, had announced that the cor- poration will distribute one-tenth of its net profits to philanthroples in ac- cordance with Biblical precepts. The American quotes Commissioner Thompson as admitting that his only knowledge of the corporation came through newspaper reports, but that the mere avowal of high moral aim: 1d not be a justification for any st laws. ice is the usual ery eking to form trusts.” the Ameri \ quotes Commissioner Thompson |as saying, “philanthropy Is no excuse | for violation of the Federal statutes or | the economic laws on which they are | hasea. “Commissioner Nugent and I com i plained last April about the bread sit- uation. Private hearings by the com- mission disclosed that Willlam B. Ward owns §1,000,000 worth of stock |in the Continental Baking Corpora tion while president of the Ward Bak v Corporation We complained the ayton act was being violated. { *“No answer has been filed In { case i NEW YORK, F the WILL AID CHARITY. Aims of Huge Bread Firm Outlined by W. B. Ward. NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., ary 1 OP).—The $1,000,000,000 Ward Food Products Corporation, incorpo- rated in Maryland, will follow Bibli cal precepts by glving one tenth of i »fits to philanthropies, Wil- i s organizer and pres- t, said today The distribution to philantrophies, he said, will be made after payvment of the dividend on the 7 per cent pre- ferred stock and before payment of the common stock dividend. The “idea of service’ behind the combine assures its success, Mr. Ward sald, pointing to Henry Ford as the best example of business leader prompted by this idea. Mr. Ward said he was unable at this time to announce what corporations would be included in the merger, which will embrace scores of bakeri milk, sugar, veast and other plants but said he hoped to give out their names In a week or two. The ai- rectorate will be organized in a few days. Mr. Ward said he expected the full- est co-operation of those assoclated with him in the merger of the various branches of the bread industry. Distribution of philanthropies, he said, wil not necessarily be limited to the ‘communities in which the new corporation has plants. The financial plan of the corpora- tlon includes the glving of one share of common stock as a bonus with o preferred share of $100. The 20,000, (00 shares of authorized capital stock includes 10,000,000 shares of 7 per cent of preferred stock of no par value and 10,000.000 shares of common stock of no par value. WOMEN LIFT SMOKE BAN. Clubhouse at University of Califor- nia to Sell Cigarettes. BERKELEY, Calif., February 1 (#). —The clubhouse of the woman's faculty at the University of California has decided to permit smoking and to offer cigarettes for sale. Irresistible demand s the explana- tion of the move, Miss Mirlam Ran- some, manager of the clubhouse. said. “It was the only thing we could do, she declared. “Members of the club are mature they want to smoke. No students live at the faculty club. Those who eat come only as guests of members. ‘Writer Registers Divorce. PARIS, February 1 (#.— Robert Peck, a writer, giving a Parls address, today registered a divorce granted to him February 12, 1925, from Florence Reid, whose address s given as the el Plaza_Chic: the Surrattsville students over the chance of participating in the con- test, states Prof. Milton M. Somers, principal of the school. Two already have definitely decided to enter the tryouts here and several others may enter the lists, according to Prof. Somers Commendation is paid The Star by Prof. Somers for extending to students of Surrattsville High School and the other secondary schools in the counties of Maryland and Virginia near the District of Columbia opportunity, for the first time, of taking part in the contest. o of those | Febru- | women and certainly know whether : occasional lunches in the clubhouse | | | alarm and then to the street and pulled the fire alarm there. By that time the top story building was a mass of flames, gency alarms, bringing out virtua all available fire equipment in th were turned in as soon as the engine arrived. Firemen, asks, were sent by Bat Schrom and Buscher to rout out the |sleeping residents of t buiiding. {each apartment was warned and |scores of men women a chi fled from the building in scanty ing Mounting ladders to the {adjoining buildin firemen | streams on the flames and soon galned ntrol, extinguishing the fire by § o'clock. Every apartment in the building suffered heavy loss from water, but only the top floor and the roof were destroyed by flames. Tt loss to the building was estima $35,000 and the remaining $10,000 1 820,000 probable damage was done to turniture and belongings of apartment owners. | | Before Harry G. Pratt, c f of de tectives, and Detectives Lowry, Fowler | and Flaherty, Marsh yester ad- | mitted he had “purposely” started a | fire on P street last ar and to have | sounded about 75 false alarms. | Saw Brother Burned to Death. Tragedies earlier in his life are be lieved by police to have seriously af- fected him. About five vears ago| Marsh saw his brother. Henry Marsh, burned to d home at Riverdals. “But don’t write anything about that,” Marsh cried pitifully this morn |ing.” “I dldn’t start that fire. Marsh, highly nervous, bit his fin gernails and asked why his mother and father hadn't been to see him. He told police he had always been nervous since childhood, when he was | pushed down a flight of stune steps. | He suffered a wound on his forehead at the time, he said. He was placed in | St. Mary’s Tndustrial School in Balti- more when a child, police were told. | Yearwood, killed in the crash with the fire truck, was riding in a cab | driven by Robert Seay, colored, | vears old, of 608 Blair place north | east. The accident occurred at Flor ida avenue and Third strect. He died before he reached ergency Hos. | pital. The cab was demolished. y was being held by police today pend ing a coroner’s inquest this afternoon | Miss Frances M. Banta, Peter Mi.| !geot, Harry Burgess and Albert Bur-| gess sustained the greatest loss of | personal belongings in the blaze. Ot er residents of the apartment who s fered loss from water damage in clude: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Orbella and son, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wagshall, | two sons and a daughter, Mrs. W Johnson and her daughters, Capt. and Mrs. J. M. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Peter | Sintatos and two daughters, Mrs. W. M. Sturges and two sons, Mrs. H. C. Blackwell and Miss Townson, Dr. and Mrs. E. M. Finch, apartment 36; Miss | E. E. Horner, the Misses E. M. and M J. Jordan and Miss F. Cleaves, Mr: A. J. Sampson and J. L. Sampson, | Miss Lena Bauer, Misses Eunice and Olivia Biller, Miss Eleanor Maynard and E. A. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. B. Wilson, Miss Grace Deal, Miss B. E. McAfee and Miss Sara Wertsela, Mrs. B. M. Hixson and two daughters, | Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Marsh, four sons | and two daughters, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Haynes and two children, Mr. and Mr. S. K. Kushelevsky and ' their daugh- ter Charlotte, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Lof- tus and daughter Mabel, Misses Merle | Dunn, Vee Dunn, Marge Dunn, Goldie | Dunn and Billie Dunn, Leo Dunn and | Miss Judy Campbell. exander h at their = Law Against Pilots Used for First Time in California. SANTA MONICA, Calif., February | 1 UP).—A recently enacted iaw against | recklessairplane piloting was used for the first time here yesterday. Earl T. Montgomery, 33, a motion picture di. | rector, was arrested at - Cloverfield. He was charged with “willfully and | the air in a reckless manner, endan- | gering the lives of persons not oc- cupants of said aircraft.” Star Ad of 51 Years In this day of increased prices it is interesting to note the decrease in cost of one popular form of communi- cation with one's fellow citizens—that of advertising. This decrease is shown in an old rate card issued by The Star February 1, 1875, just 51 years ago today. The card was found among some old papers by a Star reader re- cently, who brought it to the office as an interesting relic. Fifty-one years ago the population of Washington was about 150,000, and the circulation of The Star was 14,500. | Today Washington's population is around half a million and The Star's | daily and Sunday circulation averages 1 about 100,000. Then the minimum price for.a four- tine classified advertisement in The Star for one insertion was $1. Today the rate is 8 cents per word for ad- |1e “RECKLESS” FLYER HELD. | unlawfully operating an airplane in | vertising under any of popular chanlfle:fi.nl. such as W%t@d g!u)y Joftie Fpewl 7 - APR 4. G PYROMANIAC AND DESTRUCTION CAUSED IN BIG BLAZE ENGINE KILLS MAN [ L GANG TIES CLERKS, L0OTS POSTAL SAFE Takes Three Hours to Burn Way Through Vault—Gets 11 Pouches. bi bu with th through acetylene torch The men were in (k midn; until 3 fled sta un buil k, when they d been kept was when he was co bers, who | pushed | The Leisure work on, a and outsi and bre whic the dc Rafferty selt five and, after ave the larm A check has been started to ascer- tain if any of the pouches contained v able mail. MISSISSIPPI EVOLiJTION FOES PLAN STIFF FIGHT ected one vault to tour of the e men went ' a torch with rned off. the r3 after liberdtin, | “Tennessee Team™ Fires First Gun | to Ban Teaching in State of Scientific Theory. By the Associated Press, JACKSON, Miss., fight to the last ditch ed in Mississippi by sts to secure the pass evolution measure ature, gun v Dr. ) the Bible Crusade ded by E. A. Batema Febr as been nti-evol ge of the anti now before the was_fired here yes- evangel- of Amer- Charles omprising ‘ennes: Team e Dr. Martin in an address before a mass meeting here said: I'he quesuon wh have factories for atheism and agn ticism, or whether the public schoc shall be made safe for our chidren, right to petition verning body of the State and 1l endeavor to get this im- measure tarough the Legisl He said he had declined an of $10,000 per yvear to cease fighting evolution. Ago Cost Double Price of Today, Old Rate Card Shows or Situations; Rooms; Lost and Found; For Sale Miscellaneous, Automobil etc., and the minimum price is cents for an advertisement of words occupying two or three lines. In other words, the lowest cost for advertising in The Star over 50 years ago to reach 150,000 people through 14,500 copies of The Star was twice as much as to now reach a half mil lion people through 100,000 circulation of The Star. It also shows that at that time The Star printed about one copy for each 10 persons in the community. It now prints one copy for each 5 persons in the community, or practically a copy for every home. The reader interest in advertising is so great and the cost for advertis- ing relatively =o cheap that advertis- ing In The Star has become the uni- Versal means of communication for all classes of business announcements and personal needs. L] D ARE INDICTED BY D.C.GRAND IRY Housebreaking and Grand Larceny Lead Offenses. Six Cases Dropped. The grund jury today reported indictments and dropped 6 cases. The indictments include charges of hot breaking, assault, grand larcenc riding and non-support. The cases in which the grand jurors refused to indict are: Richard E. Sini mons and W. F Bec after trust; Willlam ( bert White, joy-riding asault; Nathan Willlams, forg George A. Sparrow, jr., houseb Those indicted, and the cha against them, are: Ruben Berob Tay lor, Ruth Milis Ruth Dic Earl Vermilllon, Frederick Vermillion Walter million, } Kaufm (two cases), George Downing and Merle T Williams, Merle Ta Downing, Merle Taylor and George Downin grand larceny: Merle Ti lor, George Downing, Alfred E. Thorpe and John Beverly, larceny after trust Sam Watson, Edward Marks, John y: . James Tascoe, James Marks, nester Smith, Willie Shands, 3 alins Ralls, ( | Dawkins | ten, ~Abr: cases 3 Edward_Al alias Heck Yienry ¥ | Ebhjah b | Randoly Marion rks, R Philip Matihews Gireen Brown, tion act property JENKINS ASKS ARMED GUARD IN MEXICO American, Once Kidnaped, Seeks Protection Against Raids by Agrarians By the Associated Press MEXICO CITY, patches from Pue! 1 Consul Feb say that former Agent William O disps ve been in « kidnaped d for $150,000 “onsul Jenkins w: bandits in 1919 and TANsol The Mexi: finally obt: United Jenki collusion i was Mexico and cleared of the QUAKE SHAKES ISLANDS. Catholic Mission Church in South Pacific Destroyed. YORF Aping ugh all the c Jenkins finally arges W ry 1 (®).—A day by the na oclet Febr cablegrs ived tional office of t Propagation of the Faith reperts that the Solomon Islands in the South Pa cific have been shaken by the worst d there in vears v of Tulagl, mission ch h o royed, and it ls suj of the build d the same no report earthquake exper: e Sulc Islands are owned i Great Britain. PNEUMONIA KILLS 117. Preumonia killed 117 persons in tha District during January, according to figures compiled today in the Bu: of Vital Statistics of the Health De | partment. Three hundred and e! nine cases of the disease dev during the month, an increase ¢ over January, 19 Health Officer W plained that January { h toll of pneumonia victims in v ington, but the disease last { month was more prevalent than in re {cent vears. In January, 1925, pneumo nia was credited with 66 fatalities. SENATE. Before taking up the tax bill to day the Senate devoted two hours to consideration of bills on the cal endar. The joint resolution for a congres. sional com: e to receive bids on Muscle Shoals for power develop- ment was considered in pubiic hear ing by the agricultural committes railroad lubor bill was taken gain by the Interstate com e committee. Another hearing will be held this afterncon by the subcommittee cc sidering the Schall-Johnson sen torial contest. The District committes will hold an executive on this afternoon 1o decide on its future course of action in the inquiry into coal prices in Washington. HOUSE. In House chamber today agricul- tural appropriation bill is under congidera.ion. ‘Appropriations committee reports deficiency appropriation bill carry ing a total of $381,000,000, of which $1,700,000 is payable for District of Columbla revenues. Clarence J. Darrow, principal witness before judiclary subcom- mittee of House District committee on McLeod bill to abolish capital punishment in the National Cap. 1. ‘u\Rflpmen(auvp of the Goodyear Rubber Co. principal witness at hearing before naval affairs com- mittee Hearings opened before the com- mittee on coinage, weights and measures on bill introduced by Representative Britten, Republican of Illinofs proposing the gradual adoption over a 10-year period of the metric system of weights and measures throughout the United Staes Subcommittee of post office com mittee conducts hearing on stamps wad newspapers.