Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1926, Page 2

_— ALL GRIFFSINLINE EXCEPT JIM LYLE : | Ultimatum Today Likely to . Change Holdout Tune of Rookie Hurler. Bpectal Dispatch ta The Star TAMPA. Fla.. Fehriars the receipt todav hy President Griffith of the signed contract af First Bassman Mule Shiriey. all the athletes schaduled report here Bunday o inaugurate training hy ihe Nationals for the ! are ac counted for. with of Pitcher Jim Lyle The latter has heen tvpical of a holdeni of experfence in the hig than an nnproved ro Mad hut one hiisf inspection company. but the nitimatum wired 1o him by Griff todas ed quick action from the tiunzsie: T've notified Lyle that the 1 offered him are final. and that he secept them leave them Griff. “'He has heen offared far than A plaver of his exnerienca nen v s, 2nd unless he gers i Mondax shifiec he will what him The cludes Catcher phreve, Ogden Larry With lark | of o 4R weason the =xcepiion haking nnisesx many ahioy rather vho has iv expec o get he prohbly a minm have 1 Washington will find himesel eagne accept far thar o chuhy lese squad die F vesk Adition 1a man Piieh Marher 1 Morrell Thoms vee and hrother of Nick Alr rock’s pariner in clowning. Broth Tarry has not actually wignad. uniess he does he will he “on his own 20 far 2% sxpensex heve ave cancern Thomas haa vel aciu wield hie pen. but practically has accepred terme and Marherri. altheuzh still 10 fill ont the doited line. ic beinz permitted tn report hecsiae Griff e eonfident he will have trouhle reaching an azresment with hix stellar #ellef man 1t Aevelops that promising vouns nt In his sizned coniract only although he previoush had terms, will not he here next week as previously announced. he originally having been notified 10 report for tofl an February 1. Myer assured (riff fn the missive accompanving his off 4ial document. thal he has heen en Joving splendid health. and is confi dent he will he ahle to zive a Account of himeelf this vear COAL STRIKE PEACE AGREED TO WITH FIVE- YEAR CONTRACT PLAN (Cantinned Smith Sehacht Buddy shortstopper Mver wheo today accepted from First Page.) AN 2 new wage contract 1o replace the one that expired August 31 last year, The sxpired contract wax a two-vear agreament and was the result of madi- ation by Gov. Pinchot of Pennsvl- | vania. The miners in that agreement received a 10 per cent increase in wages The I'nited Mine Workers' took the first steps toward writing a new contract in .June of last year when a convention was held in Scran- ton, Pa. Thix convention drew up a series of Aemands, chiaf of which were a 10 per cent Increase in tonnage rates. $1 3 day additional for men paid by the day. full recognition of rhe Wunion which ecarried with it the ehack-off system of tha companies eollecting the unoin dues for the local unions, and a two-vear contract Mining Stopped September 1. The damands were presented 1o the operators al Atlantic City on July 8 Despite the fact that the opposition of the operators was made known at the time the demands were submitted negotiations proceeded until Angust 4 when they came (o an abrupt emd Mining was siopped September 1 The Federal Governmenti at that time indicated thar it wauld not inter vene while efforis were heing made in | other directions 1 end the sirike late in Novembher Gov. Pinchot summoned the operators. headed by Maj. W. W. Inglis. and the minere led by John L. Lewis. president of the | United Mine Workers' UInion, 1o Har- risburg to receive a plan of setile ment. The miners accepted the invi- tation. but the operaiors announced | they were unable to summon their committee in the time given. Gov. Pinchoi’s plun. which among other things provided for a board of investigation and award, was accepted | by Mr. Lewis “as a basis for setile- mant.” | The operators. however, rejected It | on the ground that It was “nnwork able.” and that it provided for the ar- hitration of wages upward only i A number of other plans designed | te end the strike were presented and accepted or refected hy ane side or the ather. Then Gov. Pinchot called a eonference of mayors and hurgesses of the anthracite flelds to aee what could be done. and as a resull the ecutive succeeded in bringing the two sider together in New York on December 29. with the understanding that anv peace plan so far submitted conld he taken up and discussed When the negotiators met. Alvan Mar- kle. chairman of the foint wage con- ference. presenied a pian thai he had drafrad and this was made the basix for the resumption of discussions, which took a wide range | Arbitration Issue. ! Arbitration was & feature of all! plans. and this form of seitling the strike was opposed by the miners. They were willing. howevar, ta adept the Pinchot plan. but the aperator were uncompromisingly apposed 1o f1. A8 a result, the New York conference broke up on January 12. Two weeks later. on January 26. hoth sidex met n in Philadeiphia. at the requeat President Lewis. 1o consider a plan offered by FE. 1. Lynett, publisher of the Seranton. Pa.. Times. These meet-| ings also came to naught. the confer- | ence breaking up when they falled to reach an agreement | Many bills and resolutions weve in-| troduced in the Pennsylvania Legisla- | tura seeking to end the strike. hut all | sither were killed in committee o1 falled of passage when reported oni. The United States Senate 100k a hand | hy adopting a resolution of Senator ! Cupalna of New Jppk anpesiivgiito the President tn bring ahout a re sumption of mining. The Prasident, however. made it known that hix pol- g‘v of non-intervention remained un d. In the meantime the 158000 mine workers and sevaral housand railroad | men. made idle by the afrike. Inoked quietly on. The pinch of lack of in- eome was felt in many of the mining | cemmunities and in some of them =oup | Idtchens were established and local | charitiex did considerable relief work The United Mine Workers' Unlon does not pay strike henefiis, hut takes care of all union men and their familles through relief provided by the local and district organizations. Ohinatown to Welcome New Year. SAN FRANCISCO. February 12 (). —Sar Francisco's Chinatown tonight will celebrate new vear ev Good bye, 4364 welcome. 4880, is rhe pew year in the Chinese reckoning. The new year will bring a week of relaxa. tion, festivity and exchange of eour- tesies. 5 Union | man: Charies ¥ | Tragedy |and murder charge | scienti: France Demands Arms Commission Accede to Soviet Ry the Associated Piexs GENEVA, Switzerland, Februar 12.~France will insist that the di armament preparatory commis sion meet in & which will in sure the partciipation of Sov Russia. the newspapermen w told he the French Amba sador lean iennessy. prior to the apening of the special session of the League of Nations Couneil. (Rusein. zngered nver the assas 1tion of the Soviet Envoy Vor- ovsky a1 Lausanne In 1928, has re- frsed attend any meeting on Swiks soil.) WILKINS SUPPLIES START FOR NORTH 7C0-Mile Trek to Point Bar- row Begun by Arctic Advance Party. Dlace Today Ry the Ascaciatad Press FATREANKS, Alaska. Februa The Wilkins transpolar <upply party. headed by A Smith has left Nenana for the 700- verland 1rek 1o Point Barrow. af the departure reached here vesterdin v 12, expedition Malcolm The advance rd expecta 1o de liker Poing hefore Mareh when r-r Hubert Wilking, leader of the expedition. is <cheduled to hop it o flight over the vasi un exploved reaches of the Arctic Ocean he snow motore being used draw the 10 sledges of the supply bt an least team wae axnected PEEIY Lo Belp out in case the snow motars fail In addition Smith. veteran Alaska doz driver and explorer. Gor don Scott. Detroit snow motor expert Gordon Harding and Leslle Thaver. Falrhanks mechaniclans: Earl Rosx mann. official photographer, and How ard Mason. Seatrle. assiatant photog rapher and radio operator. aceom pany the supply frain. Tiearing on petitions of news photog- raphers 1o quash # temporsry injunc tion preventing them from taking pic tires of the axpedition has been sel for Saturday in the District Court nere. George yain at one doz to accompany The o | SONS OF REV.OLUTldN PAY | TRIBUTE TO KOSCIUSKO 180th Birthday Anniversary of Patriot Who Aided Continental Army Specially Observed. The Sons of the Revolution in the Disirict of Columbis commemorated the 180th anniversary of the birth of Tadeusz Koseinsko today with brief ceremontes at the fool of the stutue erected 1o the Revolutionary hero, in the northeast corner of lafaveits Square. Minister Zdenek Flerlinger of Po- land placed a wreath at the hase for the societv. Dr. Thomas Green chaplain of the society ered a short prayer. Koeciuako was born in Lithuania, but spent the greater part of his life in Poland. He offered his services to the (‘ontinental Army and at the end of the Revolution was one of Gen. Washington's adjutants. The commities of Revolution in charge ance included Johnu H dellv. o Sons of the of the obmery- Stover. chai Digge. Don H. Foster, Burton. Hampson rv. Parker. Ralph D. Quin H. Saunders. Walter R Tuckerman. Flova P. Waggaman and Vernon K. Wesi. memibers. They were accompaniad by the oficers and members of the board of managers. in- cluding Brig. Gen. George Richards, . S M. . president of the wociety and Charles P. Light. sacretary. 7 color guard. under Col. Henry M captain, officiated. SON EXECUTED, MOTHER DIES. FATHER LOSES MIND Descends Home Arkansas Murderer When He Dies in Electric Chair. By the Associated Prews. LITTLE ROCK —Overcome with grief Clark, the mother of who was executed her died 11 dava later. and the father. whose mind hecame deranged the day of the execution. has been sent to an Insane asylum. Clark was sentenced *he electric chair on a bank Mra. Clark he came i1l when she learned he was to he executed. dving January 19, another son revealed today. The father failad to recognize the body of his son after the execution and has since heen sent to the State Jnsane . H. Ralph Rrainard W ter. Willlam on of Mrs. Enos Tyrus Clark, January 3 o Four Slayers Executed. FLE ROCK, Ark., ephan Johnson, Isham Jones, John Canaday and Clinton Mason, ne- es. were executed at the State pris- on here today for the murder last Summer of 1. M. Moore, aged Oua- chita County merchant. L1 ) Kebruary 12 af provision and fuel to | Edward | Avk., February 12.| THE EVENING AUTOISTS WARNED OF BRIDGE DANGER ‘Guard Rails Cannot Be Made | Unbreakable, Says Bell. - Stresses Speed Limit. The District ean do little the guard rails of ita bhridges strong enough (o resist the impact of auto mohilex airiking them. Engineer (‘om. missioner I Franklin Bell pointed out todav in commentink on the accident last night in the Calvert Rireet Bridge. “Tha raflings of bridges will not | atop motor vehicles going at consider able speed " sald a statement issued by Col. Bell ‘Vehicles are supposed 10 he atopped at the enrb. The curb of the Calveri Sireet Bridge was ruised six Inchas two or thy vears ago. making it about 11'; inches high be without with |in danger of interference the hubs of automoniles, which rference would cause rather than | prevent aceidents. ‘ A second and higher curh hack of the Airat one would add something to | the protection. bui our not designed 1o support such a struc- ture. and If properly braced it would oceupy a considerable portion of the sidewalk. | _“The speed lmit on the Calvert 8treet Bridge ia eight miles an hou and is well indicaiad by signs at the ands. “Automobilists should use additional care when crossing bridges and be aure (o comply with the speed limits." aMc Director M. O. pressad the bellef that the accident was due primarily to the fact tha Mys. Standish’s machine had but one | anti-akid chain, on the left rear wheel. | One chain. he »aid. is more dangerous than none. hocause it indu-es skidding. The car also was equipped with bal- {1000 tires. he explained. which did not | “heck materially the momentum when 1t struck the curb as high pressure | Hivex would have done A careful survey of the bridge and the nature of the accident was made | by Divector Eldridge. He learned that the machine siruck the curb at an anzle of 45 degress afier it started skid. tore through the guard rail and plunged Into Rock Creek Park Mi. Eldridge said he was told the ma | chine was running at a speed of ap | proximately 20 miles an hour. |FATAL CAR PLUNGE | OFF BRIDGE MOVES (Continued from First I'age.) | a moderate rate of speed when she entered the Calvert street bridge from_Connecticut avenue shortly be. fore 7 o'clock Iast night. She put on brakes (o slow down for the bridge rosdway and the wheels locked. The left rear wheel with a skid chain held fast, wcting ux & piver. The other rear wheel, not equipped with a chain, thued sliding slong, and swerved the car to the lefi at the direction in which It wax proceed | 1ng. Goes Over Suow. Less than 50 feet from the west end of the bridge the automobile turned almost stralght north on the bridge. It went oven an 18inch smbankment of snow st the edge of the roadway With eass. mounted the sidewalk, which ordinarfly is a lift of 101 Inches from the vehicle rosdwa struck the iron guard reil a north side of the “bridge Over the brink of the abyss, the |car halted second; then slowly swung downward. sliding hood-firsl on | the side of the bridge. In the des cent, the car, 100k off large branches of a tree, which probably served to {invert i, and landed in the xnow be- | low. square on its top. Then it bounded like u light. smail box, over and into an upright position on four wheels. | } brown Almost Clear. | Collina was thrown almost clear the wreckage in the rehound. Mrs. Standish’'s body was pinned on the floor in the space beiween the front seat and the instrument board of the machine. her head resting on | the right running board When Lieut. Comdr. R. W. Hutch |Inson, medicsl division, I'. §. N.. one of the firat 1o arrive at the scene. | made his wav 1o the wreckuge, he found Miss Collins mosning with pain, with her hesd nesr the right running |buard and her body stretched away dlagonally from ft He saw another form—atlll and absolutely motionleas, beneath » large fur comt. It was th | body of Mrs. Standish. Life was ex- | tinet | _ldeut. Comdr. Hutchinson. Ravmond F. Criat, commissioner of naturalization of the Department of Iabor. and others who came rushing to the acene, on one of the meats of the | automobile and carried her up to a delivery wagon. operated hy Clayton Peyton. colored. 1935 Eleventh street, who rushed her to Emergency Hos- pital A lice reserves from the fourteenth pre. ‘clnfl kept back from the scene by placing linex about the place. Snow In Solid M, Toduy ui the scene, Asmistant I glneer of Bridgex Howmer made meus- urements und took down data for fu- thre use. He found that the snow near the guard. which I8 placed be- tween the vehicle roadway floor of the bridge and the sideway, had been packed by the action of strest car Miss wreckad VILLA’S HEAD ON WAY TO CHICAGO FOR EXAMINATION BY EXPERTS Report Says Theft From Tomb im Mexico Was Fi- nanced by Eccentric Millionaire, Not Named, Who Is “Interested in Criminology.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 12.—Chicago s have sdmitted that the head of ncisco Villa, described as “the greatest criminal of theage.” Is on ita way to experts. The Adisappesrance of Villa's head from the bandit chieftain's grave near Parral, Mexico. the night of February 5 war followed by a story in Fl Graf- ico of Mexico City that an “eccentric Chicago millionaire interested in crim- nology™" had financed the theft. “The (*hieago millionaire has not been identified, but Dr. Orlando F. Scott, prominent Chicago brain specialist, hax announced that he expected the head would arrive here within a few days. he head will be examined from a pathological standpoint by experts from universities and colieges,” he sald. but he stated he was not at lib- erty to divulge any other information, and he refused fo discise whether any Chicagoan had heen involved in the affair. Another Chicagoan, Dr. James Whit- ney Hall, noted alienist and criminel- ogist, also expressed interest, admit ting there had ‘heen sensidsrable talk ’ Chicago for examination by | of getting hold of Viila' brain for study.” want to see what the bumps he sald. I suppose Villa. was the greatest criminal of this age, and, of course. that fact gives his head scientific value, Asked fo whom he referred when he said “we,” Dr. Hall was quoted as saving, “Oh. I can't reveal the names | of my’ aasociates,” fiatly refusing to discuss the subject further. Ffforta to veach a prominent phren- ologist of Chlcago, who has devoted some of hin fortune and most of hix time to the study of physical indica- tlons of character, brought the Infor- mation that he was in Europe. A band of five obtained Villa's head, reports from Parral sald. They opened the grave late at night, broke open one end of the concrete coffin and decapitated the body. Nesr the grave they left a note that the misa- ing head would be carried to Colum- bus. N. Mex., the town Villa and"his hand raided 10 vears ago. Two men, one described as an American soldier of fortune and a Mexican companion, were held by the Parral constabulary on February 7. They claimed th had been in Durange hunting Wig ¥ 4 skull and which is whout as high as it can | sidewalks are | Eldridge ex- | | | OFFICIALS TO ACT right angles to | with | placad Miss COollins | largs crowd collected. which po- | STAR. WASHINGTON. l | | | to make | | | | | Eldridge Issues Warning Against Single Skid Chain A warni (s who are using ouly one skid chain on rear wheels and to thoxe who are not using every possible gree of ean bridges in sounded by Traffic Director Eldridge today immediately aft- er he Inspected the scene of the ert Bridge nccident. easily possible, and en- robable,” he sald, “that dent, to_some degree, wus caused by skidding as the result of the one-skid- chain arrangement. One chain is worse, far w te at all. When skid chalue the ear does swerve (o the side on wi bites, us it does wh i skid chain is attached. » stroug_emphasis ca be placed on the need for ge eral cau the time the roadway is slip much attention e perils of { pper: Mase of (wisted steel and wood, what_was left of the closed car driven by Mrs. John A, Standish of Wardman Park after lts plunge from the Calvert “Street Bridge yesterday evening Center: The broken railing, showing | where the car, heading from the weat end of the bridge. went through Mis< Kathryn Collins, w ¥ Hospital recovering i injuries sustained in the fall i {anow plows fnto & sembsolid mass which would make it easy for an auto. mobfle to mount this guard sirder Ordinarily, 8 car would have to monnt {1015 or 11 inches to reach the side walk. On the sidewalk just in side the guurd girder sl the toudany edge of the sidewulk, the snow was beuped luusely height of # foot and a half or two feel. Thix failed (o act ux much of « deterrent (o the passuge of the sulomobile “1 fall to mee nt this point.” Com missioner Bell said #t the scene th morning. “exactly what can be doue to prevent such accidents. We are | going 1o look Into the matter. We al ready have invesiigated similar cases “We know. from sich investigation. if we would strengthen the hand.rail on the hridge - which Ix impracticahle hecause there is not sufficient leverage for the supports —that the wnly re | ault would he for the sidewnlk as well | 4% the rafling to go in case of suff jcient impact, for the break wouid oe cur where the resistance was least.” | The sheen of lee at the extreme i side of Lridge proclaims OF tself pertl and danger (0 motorists, I the machine was progressing st a “koodly rate of speed.” as Comdr. Hutchinson believes, and an attempt was made o slacken speed with one inxsid chain and & e onter wheel, those who Investigated helieve that the real cause of the ident can be und therein It was learned. in connection with ! this accident. that the District govern- ment would he handicapped in the matter of ixing up conditions on lacal bridges and culverts. since an appro- priation of only $7%.000 for the care and maintenance of hridges and for | the pavment of those in charge of | that work was avaflable for the pree ent fiscal year. despite the fact that | there are 300 hridges and culverts in the District In need of supervision by | the encineer department’s bridge sec- ton. Thix would amount to approxi- ‘nm!e—l\ $53.33 pe rbridge and culvert in the District. Costs for any extensive repalrs (v bridges, according to those in that division of the District gov- ernment, run often to thousands of dollars in the case of one hridge alone. matters are heing considered Lternoon by Commisstoner Rell the [T the Kl In an gle Bridze Accide ecident the avenue bridge st Klingle June, 1t ix vecalled that { same situacion was presented. 1 i case u car operated by Comdr. fhmry Thayver, running south. evidently scraped a telegraph pole with its right front hub cap, swerved and dashed straight across the bridge, carrving | this | Comdr. Thaver. his daughter. Mrs. Jo- | and others in the enzineer depart | sept A. Macias, and her hushand to ment of the District in conferences death in Klingle Valley helow. The | growing out of the accident. infant daughter of Mrs. Macias was| Close attention wan given the situa- unhurt and is well and healthy teday. [ tion by Trafie Director Eldridge. The other hridge accident was not Ohsln Pangironi. fatal. Several months ago. a Mar: land antomohile croasing the Connecti-| I don't see how an automobile. pro- cut Avenue Milllondollar Bridge | ceeding at § miles an hour, as the sign swerved into the hand rails at tire side. |on the hridge warns is the spaed limit but hung on the edge. the operator |of safety on the bridge. or sven at 15 escaping. In thix case the heavy hand [miles an hour. which is allowed in the rafl waw carried away, & 15-foot sec- | printed regulations, could go from the tion dropping down to Rock Creek |south side of the bridge, across to Park. but the automobile stopped after | the north side and up on the sidewalk its front ‘wheels had just gone vver the [und thryyizh the ruiling,” he said Hp of the bridge. | course, Ahere ure other items to con- Comdr. Hutchinson saw the accident |sider. Important among them is the last night, when he was walking west | fact that une skid chain is worse than across the bridge with hiz wife. He|none at all, for it merely helpa skid- had just gotten on the bridge when he |ding. On icy bridges in this kind of noticed an automobile, he said, turn [weather motorists cannot use too suddenly as If it were to run into a |great precaution.” driveway, swing across and then sud- Mrs. Standish had been living at denly—for some unknown son-— | Wardman Park Hotel for more than a apparently accelerate 1ix speed, Tt will | year with her hushand. She was a be recallad that eyve.witnesses to the |native of Buffalo. N. Y., and had Klingle Bridge accident testified to |studied dramatics in that city. Surviv- the same type of speeding up by the |ing her are her hushand. an adopted machine in question in that case, and |son. John Alden Standish. jr.; a sister. although it was never known. it was | Misx Mable Lannon. and her mother, accepted that Thayer had stepped on [Mra. Reatrice Lannon. All relatives, the accelerator when his foot had [mave the hushand. are in Buffal sought the hrake. In the case last| Miss Collins in a native of Nevada, night. therefore, in view of the state-|but has heen here since the war. ac. ment of Comdar. Hutchingon, the same |cording to Mr. Standfsh. who emploved groping for the brake and the slip [her as secretary and stenographer. of the foot to the accelerator may have | Efforts are now being made to get into been responsibie for the plunge. communication with her relatives, al- though their addresses are not defi- Making Fair Speed. nitely known. Tt is believed sbe has a As well as he could see, Comdr. brother in California and a sister in Hutchinson said, since he was at one | Reno, Nev. side of the hridge and the accident | Miss (olline served as a welfare oceurred ahout 4» or A0 feet from the | worker other side, the machine was. not going |during the World War. at an excessive rate of speed. "It was expert stenographer, and had served making good speed.” he sald. “any-|as a court stenographer. Some three where hetween 15 and 25 miles an months ago, she had been in an acei- hour, and my vague opinion i that [dent. and was treated in Georgetown it wan about 20 miles an hour. un Connecticut road, last almost the | ‘U'“V‘fl')‘ Hospital. The floor of the bridge is absolutely Last night she and Mra Standish t “or | with the Red Cross fn Parix | She was an D. €. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 WRECKAGE AFTER FATAL PLUNGE AND WOMAN WHO SURVIVES FURSHOPS CLOSED AS STRIKE LOOMS i Manufacturers Throw 8,500 Out of Work for an In- definite Period. BY the Associated Pre NEW YORK. February their shops. according ment. to stall a manufaciurers, members of the Axso ciate Fur Manufaciurers’ Association vesierday threw K300 persons out work for an indefinite period The asxsociation charxed in & state- ment. that the present union wish to enfurce communistic condi tions on the industry. When the | shops are reopened. the statement read. they will be run without union. 12 Closing their siate strike. 400 fur to The actual strike order for the with- diawal of all members of the Fur Workers Union will be issued within the next two or three days. union leaders declared. Ten thousand men including those affected by the lock | out. will be called on to strike. | Beniamin Gold. manager of the board of the furriers union that the manufacturers have sunably " rejected discussion principal demands. CLOTHING FOR VETERANS ASKED BY LEGIONAIRE ;Declnrps Men Are Discharged In- Joint ald ‘unres- of the sufficiently Clad From Hos- pitals Here. | Seldiers are being turned out of Gov ernment hospitals in Washington without sufficient clothing 1o keep them warm, it is charged by a com | mitiee of the American Legion. of which Charles Kohen is chairman. Mr. Kohen has made an appeal for citizens of Washington to give over coats, shoes and clothing for thexe vet | erans. He stated today that as many asx 15 or 20 cases a day of veterans being without sufficient clothing to keep them warm ure called to his at tention He told of a veteran app=whing for clothing yesterduy, who was without overcoat ‘and had newspapers under his clothes to keep him warm. Mr. Kohen desires that such articles be sent to his office at 606 Thirteenth street. Dr. Radcliffe to Speak. Special Dispateh to The Star. RALTIMORE. Febnuary Lewis Radcliffe, commissionsr of United States Fiisheries, will be the guest of honor and principal speakes at the banquet of Baltimore Chapter, 0. 2. of Maryland, Izask Walton League of America, here tonight. Other speakers include Swepson Earle, couservation commissioner of Mary- land: Talbot Denmead. acting chief United States game warden, and K. Lee Le Compte, State game warden of Maryland. of leaders the | 'EXPLAINS ORATORY CONTESTATRALLY ‘ . iLeigh Tells Business High Pupils of Scope and Pur- pose of the Affair. iYEAR SET RECORD, - BANK BOARD SAYS | Federal Reserve Statement Declares 1925 High-water Mark in Production. | Be the Assoctated Pross The r b stands aker from the atandp production, the ¥ 4 declared today in its vey of business conditions. Trade and Industrial activity generallv. the hoard said. wera in considerabiy larger me than In any previous vear. The lurgesi growth in production | A raily nationsl and contest was in the intereat of the 1326 iniernational nratorieal held in the assembly auditorium of the Rusiness High School this morning, when the purposes. xcope gnd significance of the contest were piesesited 1o the student hody by Rundolph Leigh. the nailonal divector, and the vilue of tie expert ence of participation explatned wan in the boflding industry. the| by Miss Edith Raphelson winner of board found, with proguction of com-|4ast vear's school coniesi and runner- moditiex used in construetion and | up in the Washin Stara finals ripment of new hufldings standing Mine Margusrite Manning. chafr ot shove the orhers. man of the faculty committes having Notwithatanding 1he Incrassed ac-| he contest in charze. presided tivity in almest every line of com- | 'he gathering and scunded the cal | mereial offort. the hoard declared| the assembled students 1o provida as there had heen a correspondingly [ /arze a number of participants as pos amaller increase in the use of bank | Sihle and to <ivive 1o hring 1o the credit for commercial, industrial school the higheat honors in the event agricultural purpoaes. There was an thix vear. which mean. in addition 1o important growth In credit in the de.| substantial cash prizes. a superb Fu mand for loans on securities, and this. ropean r with all expenses paid it was suld. mav have heen a factor | 10 addressing b in advancing money ratex from the!l.figh spoke the 165 1ovale oF 1934, {of the contest as a pred Cearly all of the important indus. 10 & business education and call trien were more active in 1925 than in | fention to the favored position of con the vear hefore.” the survey reporied, !8&lanis from the Distiict of Columbia while “demand for goods by consum: |and the entire Washingion ares as era, both urban and rural. was sus.Sponsored hy The Washington Star in fained throughout the vear and was|(Pal the winner in the area finals reflected In & large volume of distiilu.| Would clear divectly Into the national {ien of commodities. Buth at whalesile | Bnals and automatically receive wnd ui retall. The larger solume of | fiee educaiic our of Furope xales by department storex wax due to | dition 1o 1he ca<h prizes & relatively high level of employment \ in factories and in construction work and the growth in the volume of busi.| Other points sirexsed by the spaaker ness of mail-order housex and of sell-| Were the pronounced value to he ers of farm implemantx 1o the increase | zained by high school and girls in buying power of farmers resulting | 1aking part in the contest in acqniring from helter fnancial returns from |4 knowledge of (ke Constiution of the farm operations during the past two United S those who partict pated chiefly in {is institutien and (e vears ‘he wholesale commodity | velopment and the value of the irain prices. though it dld not adiance dur- ing in s=peaking and in prepa ing 1925, was on rthe ave: for the of orations. Adyice on how to abtain vear ax & whole § per cent higher than | material and prevare 1he orations wex in 1924 and higker than for anv of the | &iven and the faci was siressed for preceding four vears. reflacting chiefly | the henefit of prospective contesiani higher average prices of farm crops, “1'hout previous nerience that a and live aock and of commoditien| Predominant pe cen o winners i1 manufactured ont of sgricultural raw | Previous contesis had heen without ex materials. perience of the up 1o the 1ime o 135 ARE MAROONED P = ON 5 STALLED TRAINS £~ 157 + the contest wi Sleighs, But Others Caught in ten-minute address Long Island Drifts Elect to Stay. knowledge in angle of the « as a record 1 of indus ix audience, Alr ical ad the f the Tralning. lavel of fon he t rile of govern Leigh declared for entrance in L i Mr Ing zain Sty ot valt a of the m on. govern fundamentais into a | A new o ntest this vear. the inclusion of the sihject of America’s Contrihution 1o ional Governmient as offering contestants new wibiect for th enlarged amd ¢ iphasizing 1h experience Conatitn hed upon Ry the Assncinted Pr RIVERHEAD. X Long Isiand 125 men, | dren ahoard were Instatied in 1he snow | throughout last nizht within a radlus of 15 miles from this town. Al Jut 0 of the marooned passengers taken from the traina early taday and iehi here in sleighs The 30 others atill were ahosrd (vo truins sialled at Cutchogue, ahout 15 milex east of here. Railioad officials supplied them with hreakfast Although a hiting wind piled drifis hixher #nd higher ahout the trains stalled in cutx which rapidly filled up in apite of the efforis of a rotary now ¥ litile dis I8 ches V.. February 17 D trams amen and chil character previous 1o suc ted five of the na had had experience dona gond and wers pssessed avan in an oratorieal way what can he aceom of creating power the avall tested of Five ' about contast ax essiul particip “For the last the fourieen tional fina Washingte evions public spesking The other nine haid simply K in English or history potential ahility No one can plished in the 1o move an an alle material hus heen = only n ' Miss Raphelson Speaks mic hested When the water motives zave the w o inte them With freight service food supplies rapidly dwindling. resi dents along 1his division of the rail- road were heginning to feel ihe effecis of the ppled service. The roads are blocked 16 motor truck iraffic Al availah eighs are baing pressed into transp vice ihe passengers sufle; t.ax all of the « pleasurst Arrange | Burapean oo to as providing a outiook 1 addition 1o entertainment and instrue - ind edueational were | faarures of the referrs uppiy the en tanks of the loca hroadened out replenished hy shoveling Yo Miss ng abont her participat vonthiul speaker cited ing pointe of <pecial va She told of dividi inte three periods. in read carefully in | =elected hooks on the Constitution, then sought her ideas together ami digest their with the aid of her teachers. and finallv devoied hersell industrieusiy memorizing and delivering her oration. The f l tuphelson was calle: Kive contest the winns Miss Maj information ear anid <chuol iy halted & the hel the omistand e i 5 nos ner time which she firs faci. ahsorhed <ubject of the hrinc URGE SNOW REMOVAL. Police Today Visiting holders Whose Walks Are Covered. House- committes School con Mannins arty, Mis Fsther High Marenerite Cora M Miss aratorical Business £ Mise cheirman: Miss the | Minnie Davis hraith Householders who have failed to clean (he remnents of Tussday night's heavy snow from their <idewalks will be visiied today by a member of | Metropolitan Police Depariment. Mai. Edwin B. Hesse, suparintend ent of nolice, at the requesi of Engi nesr Commissoners Rell. instructed policement today to warn persons, who have not cleaned their sidewalks, of their viclation of the snew-removal law. Commissioner Bell is hopefni that & friendly warning will he suff cient and that the police will noi he forcad to take violators inte court. Chronic vinlatora of the snow-re. moval law. who have heen reported ta | the Commiseioners, also will receive a | personal letter from Commissionar Bell appealing to them in the sense of clvic pride to clean their sidewalks, | SIX OFFICERS HELD INVOLVED IN PROBE | OF AIR PROPAGANDA __(Continued from First and Today in Congress NENATE. i« approaching passage of the The Senate today the final stages of tax reduction hill. When the mes alon hegan Semator Narrle offared a new amendment 1o collect an in come 1ax on amanuntx inherited by fndividuals. as a sunstitute for the ectale tax. which the Senate voled 1o abolish & few days agn The Senate paused for a few min ulen o observe Lincoln's hirihdax Senator Willls. Republean. of Ohfo and Senstor Bavard. Democrat. of Delaware. made hrief references 10 the life of Lincoln Work on the agricpltural appro- priation bill was hegun by the suh. commitiee of the appropriations committee. The public lands committes hald & hearing on the Smaat scheol land grant bill. Page.) wan going to “get” Maj. Gen. Mazon M. Patrick. ehisf of the Army Al Service. wha is sdvoeating an Inde- pendent air eorpa. Gen. King said he personally had prepared the paper read todav. “Fur- thermore,” he continued, “when T | appear bhefore committeex of Con- | gress. T am ready to give my per- | sonal opinion on evervthing—re- | gardless of whether it coincides with {thut of the department. But if 1 were taken o task for It afterward I would be uot only ed. but indignant.” “The rumor is going around Gen. Patrick “ix marked now,’ marked Renresentative Wright, Dem- ocrat, Georgla. HOUSE. House today Linealn’ hirthday was commemorated by the reading of Lincoln's Gattyshurg address hy Represantative Timber- lake of Colorado. The House continued ronsiders- tion of the Army appropriation bill. Chairman Zihiman of the House District committee introduced a jolnt resolution providing for an iuvestigation of fiscal relations by tween the Federal and District gov- ernments by a joint committee of louse und Senate to determine & permanent fiscal policy regardin; appropriations for the Nationa In the it that From “Sob Sister tha Assoriated Press. SPRINGFIELD. I, Febrnary 12.— If “mob sinter hysteria” continues and aubterranean methnde of attorneys prevail, Robert Seott, wanted in Chi- cago for -murder, may.be held in the California State Prison until he punished more for the crime of rob- bery committed in that State. savs & message from the Governor of ali- fornla (o Gov. Len Small of Illinois. The views of Gov. Richardson were ontained in a message sent to Gov. Small _yesterday. Gov. Small has had dined togethsr at Wardman Park Hotel, 2nd when the acecident curred they were en route to meet Mr. Stand- I: v\’hfl“:;l!l VA"‘IH’\' J. T. MeLoughlin, vice president of the Pyorreut Labora. taries. at the latter's apartment in the California Governor Would Keel; gcott Gapital. Forelgn affalrs committes con- tinued hearings on the education of Persian students under the in demnity received from Persia for the death of Consul Robert W. Im brie. Mrs. Imbrie In executive s sion told the committes details of the tragedy and made serious charges. Tnterstate Commerce rom; In_ executive session raiiroad labor bill. Mili affairs committe con- tinues hearing on the proposed de partment of national defense with Gens. Drumm, King and Davis as principal witnesses Labor committee In executive ses- on discusses hearings on convict labor. Hysteria” in Illinois | nigned requisition papers for Scott, whose brother. Russell. was convicted | of the same murder with which Scott |1 charged. Russell was sentenced to | hang, but pleaded fnsanity and is now | | in an asylum. i Gov. Richardson said that he had| heard 1 ‘sob sistera of Detroit | have raised a large fund to defeat the | ends of justice.” "He also saic he had | | been advised that a Chicago attorney fad went word to Scott to waive ex- tradition, because he could be taken from the police when he waus brought back hece. Unless parolled. Scott's sentence af San Quentin does not ex | pire until *May 23, 1929, Gov. Rich- | ardson asked Gow,' Small 1o “consider | the possibiliity of a convietion and the policy of having him remain in the California_prison untfl he is pun ixhed more and soh sister hysteria sub-. | sides in. Detroit and Chiesgo.” - ittas considered Mexican Jailer Jailed. DIE , Calf., Febrpary Angel Osuna. =aid 1o have b in charge of the Tijuana. Mexien, jail when T. M. N. George of Atlanta. Ga., was fatally beaten in the jail several months ago, was arrested in Tijuasa last night.