Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1926, Page 1

WEATHER. (TI. §. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain today; tomorrow clear and cold- er; moderate to fresh easterly winds, shifting to northwest by tomorrow morning. Temperatures: Highest, 44, at 4 p.m. vesterday: lowest, at mid- night yesterday. Full report of “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes at 60 cents per month. Telephone Main 5000 and service will start immediately. he WASHINGTON, Sunday Star. FEBRUARY 14, 1,091—No. 29,874, , FIGHT FORTAX BILL | APPROVED IN HOUSE second class matter Washington, D. C. D. C, SUNDAY CRAVEN IS QUIZZED MORNING, 1926.—112 PAGES FIVE PROBE OF PAY ROLL CENTS. ) Means Associated Press. SUPREME COURT DISCARDS RULES Deputy Clerk Invades Conference With Plea While - THEY DUEINCONFERENGE Members of Lower Chamber Claim Senate Cuts Must Be Eliminated. POSITION IS OUTLINED BY GREEN AND TILSON Some Compromise Likely in Con- ference. Which Will Start Tomorrow. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. put nist ax reduction bill as it the House of fact with regard < its mem the con House, as a matter posit hill whi es 4 strate ' e 1ax hers gre now sizes up is at for a bill 330,000, its face than administration has set s r eut in taxes Smoot of Utah, chairman the finance committee and tive chatrman of the conference mmittee er a visit to the Presi declared that the bill framed so as not to pator pros tinall than 1st more 33 Pred or§ finally pas: Higher Figure. t that the d the Senate Fri a total tax re 000. House mem the total reduction of ns reduction of rev bill reach a much der to meet the mands of the administration and the Republica it is clear that more than $100,000,000 in taxes must el House moot pointed of which m - restof he provided for a total ot about $330.000,000. position which will he taken ™ House Republicans was ¢legrly fndicated by Rep Lowa, chairman means committee, ty leader. Might Apply Later. Mr. Tilson, however, in his state- ment made a suggestion that some of the tax reductions proposed by the Senate bill, notably the repeal of the estate tax, the tax on automobiles and the admissions, might be made to tax The the and enta- ma- of the ways and by Repre wnecticut, the apply at some time in the future and | ; not immediately. This, he said was merely his own proposal, however, and not that of the House members of the conference committee. The estate tax, whith the Senate repealed, will be restored ence, it was confidently predicted last ‘night. The restoraticA of this tax donbtless will make mes the adoption of the conference report when it comes to the Senate for acelon. Some of the Progressive Re- publicans @nd certain of the Demo- were" violently opposed to the repegl of this tax euring its considera- tion in the Senate. Proposals for Compromise. Varous propssals with regard to a comprenise involving the estate tax © been rumored. Rut in the end the House provision for the estate tax, 11 is believed, prevail., with po bly ths getroactive clause ipserted the Senate, which would make the 1 estate tax rates apply feaun June 1924¢—vhe dato of tha present law— up fo the time the \pew law besomes effective. The maxfmim rate in the 1921 law was 25 peg gent and in the 1924 law 40 per cént. It has been estimated that effect of this retro- mctive clause would be to reduce the tax pald on estates since June 3, 1 by some $85,000,000. The intimation was strong last night that the House conferees would ac- cept the Senate amendments to the gurtaxes on incomes $24.000 to $100,000 a year In th connectfon it may be pointed out that the House Democrats strongly urged such modifications while the was Lefora the House, and that the Senate committee made tpe reductions now carried in the bill 4t the insistence of the Democtatic memb mittes, led by Senator North Carolina Surtax Rate Approved. The maximum surtax rate, 20 per 1 o cent on incomes in excess of $100,000, | has been zpproved by both House and Senate, and therefore will not be a hone of contention in conference. The repeal of the so-called publicity clause of the income tax law also has heen approved by hoth houses, and therefore that issue is dead so far as t bill Is concerned. enator Smoot and Represent- en expressed the hope last it that the conference committee would be able to conclude its work on the hill within the coming week and ' thae the bill finaily would be passed and sent to the President for his pwoval within a few days thereafter. Senator Smoot said that in order to exywdite thd preparation of the forms to he used for making out income tax returns and payments due March 15, the printing of these forms would be hesun as soon as the conferees had asreed on the surtax rates, the capi- 1al stock and corporation taxes. Tt is expected these matters will be taken up carly in the conference. Will Work Long Hours. The first conference on the bill is slated for tomorrow afternoon at 2 oclock. With a view the measure, long hours. In 4 statement on the tax bill last night Majority Leader Tilson said ““We expect that the tax bill will come over from the Senate on Mon- day and that the House will imme- diately agree to a conference and ap- point a committee to meet with the conferees on the part of the Senate for the purpose of adjusting the differ- ences between the two houses. It 4s my hope that an agreement will be reached in conference which will not substantially change the im- medlate effects proposed by the origi- nal House bill. 1 am, and I think the majority of the members of the House in favor of reducing taxes just as Continued on o 4, Column 2.) to_expediting the conferees will worl provi- | 50,000,000 from the | e bill in conference. | ssentative Grwan #f| in confer- | urably easier | 4. | able to settle the strike without Gov- Anging from | s of the com- | Simmons of | Hanging of G 5 the Associated Pross ) The Supreme Court f the United States stepped ontside tradition ves terday to hear the final, hopeless ap. peal of a condemned murderer spend- ing his hours in a death cell 3,000 | | | | | B The supplicant was Harry Garbutt Who later paid the penalty for crime at the end of a rope In Prison _California. His sole n in Washington was an of- the court itself, C. Elmore ey, a deputy clerk. It was Chief Taft who finally cast the s aside, halted the majestic | ure of the highest tribunal, and | | to the full court in cham- | the question whether there had on of the ends of jus ep was more remarkable in rity of the justices, in ding the Chief Justice himself, al cady had heard Garbutt's plea in | privite and found it without merit the end, the nine members of the were unanimous in deciding not | to intervene to stay the execution | 1t was upon a slender technicality of the laws of California that the mdemned man pinned his final spe tacular fight for lfe. His attory v rbutt Is Held Up 40 Until Cleared Wire FI sh Ernest D. B 3 e for been set in under u provision tatutes, which would onstitutionality. cer himself did not come to ‘apital to present the plea, but rded it by mail to Gropley. It first wus presented Friday to Justice rland. who is nssizned to the 3 . He found the question sed already had been settled by t urt in another Culifornia case, and declined to issue the stay which any individual member of the teibunal cin £rant as a means of providing time in which to perfect a formal appeal ubsequently, Chief Justice Taft, and Justices Sanford, Stone and Brande in turn. contirmed the refusal tice Sutherland Strangely, ti members of e edent hid also been pre and had come to « dra It was the case of ng, convicted of Killing polic 1. who tried u for stealing pagnoh. contended that Garbutt's execution had his absence from court, of the California not bear the e case 1 which all rd for ented by e ourt ol w1 to 4. Column 3.) (Continued on P’ VINERS WAIT CALL - INSUNNIEST MOOD N i | |Merchants Smile for First| { Time in Weeks—Coal May | Be Mined Wednesday. | By the Associated Press. | PHILADELPHIA. February 13.— An era of good feeling prevailed to- day in the hard coal fields, following {upon the settlement of the long and | costly strike. From every city and { hamlet came the word that the { miners were eagerly waiting for the | hundreds of colliery whistles to call | them back to work. All the bitter ness engendered by the industrial struggle has disappeared. | This first work will rt next { Wednesday or Thursday, and coal will be rolling to exhausted markets !in the speediest time possible. The exact time of resuming mining will depend upon the ratification of the peace compact by the tri-district con- ! vention of miners, which meets at Scranton next Tuesday. Ratification |is regarded as a formality. H Getting Mines Ready. | The work of getting the mines in | readiness proceeded rapidly today | Extra maintenance men were pressed nto service to aid the 8,000 who have guarded the properties since the strike started. Generally, the mine: were reported to be in fair condition Already, hundreds of workers who { left the flelds to engage in other pur- suits during the suspension, are com Ing back to their homes. | When the strike began, 158,000 | miners became idle. The full force | will be unable to return to thelr em. ployment at first, but it was agreed that a very high percentage of the men would be on hand Industrially, the reglon bhegan to find ftself again, and anxious mer- chants smiled for the first time in weeks. Lewis to Explain Terms. Philadelphia was deserted as a_cen ter of mining interest today. With the exception of John L. Lewis and Phillp Murray, president and vice president of the United Mine Work- | ers, all members of the joint com- | mittee had left for their homes. The miners' officials will remain here | until Monday, when they will go to | Seranton for the convention. = Mr. preside and explain the | | | Lewis will ‘tenns of the agreement. Mining officlals, as well as operators, expressed satisfaction that they were | ernmental or State intervention. | They unqualifiedly give the credit for the settlement to Richard F. Grant of Cleveland, who conducted the deli- brought both | cate nezotiations that | Grant left the sides together. Mr. city today FOX TERRIER WINS CUP. NEW YORK, February 13 (#).—A wire-haired fox _terrier, champion | signal circuit of Halleston, imported from England by Mr. and TENRDISELOSNG CATHOL SADOLS Mexico City Convents Also| Among Places Ordersd to Shut Up. By the Associated MEXICO CITY, February 13.—Un, der orders of the Department of the ' Interior, the authoriti closing various Catholic convents in Mexic suburbs. A recent hours for the volun institutions Among the buildings closed is the Academy of the Visitation in the suburb of Coyoacan, conducted by Sist of Alabama. She recently called at the American embassy and discussed the situation with Ambassador Shef- field. The Amt rought matter up in a pe nversation with Foreign Minister Saenz and in- formed the Secretary of State at Washington, but he made it perfectly clear to the Mexican forelgn minister that he was not taking the case up tormally. Sister Semple has declined to make a statement for publication. have begun schools and City and the order allowed 24 ry elosing of the No bishops, ministers or represent. ' atives of any Protestant churches thus | far have been deported. reports persist that tants can be deported also, but this is not believed in well informed circles. The American Ambassador has not made any representations to eign office regarding the general re- ligious situation here. N It is understood that about 50 Span- ish priests in Mexico City and vieinity are preparing to depart voluntarily anticipating deportation From 6 to 10 Spanish Newspaper priests are being held for deportation, and it is ' reported that the Spanish Minister does not intend to make further pro. Les in view of the failure of his resentations to prevent the recent deportation from Vera Cruz to Havana of Spanish p iginally was announced that priests were de. ported to Havana, but it is now said they numbered 14. H. K. PORTER LIBRARY IS GIVEN TO BROWN U. Washington Stepdaughter of Pio- neer Locomotive Builder Makes Gift to Providence School. By the Associated Press. PROVIDENCE, R. L, February 13. —Dr. Harry Lyman Koopman, libra- rian of Brown University, announced today that Miss Annie Hageman of Washington, D. C., had given the uni versity the private library of her step. father, Henry Kirke Porter, of the Brown class of 1860. The library i a valuable one of over 2,800 volumes One of the Lreasures of the collection is Pine's edition of the works of Hor. ce in two volumes, amply illustrated, _Tanley J. Halle of this city w. today judged the best dog in the fiftieth annual Westminster dog show at Madison Square Garden. It was | the first time since 1916, that a fox terrier won the cup given for the best dog by the English Kennel Club. the text as well as the fllustrations being wholly the work of the en. graver. Henry Kirke Porter was the pioneer locomotive builder of Pittsburgh, s veteran of the Civil War, and a for. mer member of Congress. | By the Associated Press. n ROME, February 13.—Ignazio Tor | raca. a poor and almost illiterate resi- dent of the town of San Ferdinando, in the Province of Puglia, today un loosened the purse strings of Itallan citizenry and handed over to the gov- ernment a sum of money estimated to be sufficient to pay one year's an- nuity on the war debt to the United States. | In other words, the government {won at the official lottery booths throughout the nation between 100,- 000,000 and 125,000,000 lire because . millions of Italians put faith in Tor- racas’ predictions, which failed to come true. Behind this simple statement lies an | amazinz story of how mob psychology, fanned by credulity and carefully ar-| ranged publicity. sent the entire na- tion on a gambling spree unprece- dented in history. A week ago stories trickled into the big cities describing how Torraca, through a secret process of divina-| tion inherited on his father's death- bed, had tipped off friends, poor resi- dents of San Ferdinando. us to the winning numbers of the official lottery, his predictions being so uncannily accurate that the entire countryside had hecome enriched. Hoax Suspected as Lottery Seer Fails Italians and State Wins 100,000,000 Lire Newspaper men by the score has. ened to San Ferdinando and the large dailies printed interviews and stories running to % and 10 columns. After- ward Torraca announced that he would predict the winning numbers in this week's lottery. He kept the natlon in suspense until last night when he made public several -‘sure winners." All day long today the lottery booths in virtually every city of the nation were besleged by fortume hunters. Police and caribineers were called out to control the mob. which after the booths were closed smashed the win. dows and started small riots. Dispatches from Turin, Milan, Na- ples and Bari say such scenes hac not been witnessed since the rioting in the days immediately following the World War. At Naples alone 20,000.000 lire were wagered, and at Bari, 12,000,000, Announcement of the failure of the ure thing” numbers was transmit. ted by telegraph and in some places newspapers issued spe- cial editions. Meanwhile Torraca is being heav- ily guarded by caribineers against the popular wrath, especially since the rumor has been started that he was subsidized in his aqWvities by government authorities. It {s belleved he will be escorted to a secret hiding place tonight. £ Jus | tie | ar- | 1 bottle of milk. | rs in Wolfzing's appeal were ! » Margaret H. Semple, formerly | the | foreign Protes. | the for- | IN CATHGART CASE; ENIES BAN LOOMS Says Officials Grilled Him Without Mention of Pos- sible Deportation. COMMISSIONER DENIES OUTSIDE INFLUENCE Barred Countess Declares She Does Not Regret Past—Questions Morals of Entire Nobility. By the Assoclated Pres i NEW YORK, February 13.—The Earl of Craven, visiting here with his wife, was questioned today by tmigration authoritles investigating the case of Countess of Catheart, who was refused admission to this country when she admitted an elopement with the earl. At the home of his father-in-law, Uradley Martin, the Earl of Craven | said that immigration officlals had said | | nothing to him of the possibility of | his deportation. “I know nothing of mmigration ming it he said. authorities have been 0 see me all afternvon and they have questioned me regarding Lady Catheart. sald nothing about my being ‘It is perfectly g the way | Lady Cathcart has treated. 1 emphatically say that I had nothing to do with the action against her, 1 | did not know when she was coming to America or on what ship. The | | United States Is quite Lig enough for the two of us i Protest Is Aroused. Exclusion of the countess by the arl of Craven, numed as co-respond- | ent in her husband's divorce suit, re. mains in New York, has aroused a storm of protest by prominent | Womer | H. H. Curran, commissioner of immigration authorities, while the ordered un immediate investigation of L the eart's cas Mr. Curtan said information on the would be referred to] Labor Davis, the only the right (o issue u rest, and to decide on He said the earl's case pressed us rigorously ws that of the countess and would be thoroughly investigated, no .matter what the outcome of hers A clause in section 19 of the immi- gration act of 1917, which covers the exclusion of the 'countess on the | Erounds of admitting “‘commission of an act involving moral turpitude, covers also the deportation of any alien already in the country “who ad- mits the commission. before entrance, felony, or crime involving moral turpitude. i The commissioner d, tthat any one had clusion " of the Secretary of person havin warrant of & -portation as being itely denied | requested the ex. countess; that any ip” against her entrance had been received, or that any outside influ. ence at all had been working against her. When the countess.” said Mr, Cur- n, “wrote ‘D' (meaning divorce) op- posite the question, ‘Married or sin. h landing manifesto, or she imposed on the inspector the responsibility of #sKing questions, which brought the jreply that has made it necessary for { her case 10 g0 before Secretary Davis for decisic “In the c the same of the Earl of Craven procedure would naturally not take place, as he {8 a married man and ‘M' would occur on the manifest in the same place and no questions would be asked.” "l realize now that there ‘was no one at work trying to keep me out,” Lady Cathcart said today. Reporters Are Admitted. At her own request she was per- mitted to see reporters on Ellis Island. With sharp features, quick- moving, defiant brown eyes and dark | hair, the countess is slim and smart. Today she wore black satin, lace and pearls, “l was my own worst enemy. By telling the truth 1 have gotten my- self here. It does put rather a pre. mium on lying “However, I have always tried to | be honest, and I expect to be In the future,” she added. This young | woman, who in her early thirtles has | such a varied career to look back on—marriage, war widowhood, mar- riage again (to a nobleman nearly three times her age), romance with the fascinating young war hero (Lord Craven), an’ elopement to the Riviera and later Africa, divorce, de-. sertion by her lover, death of har stepfather, and now the reduced cir- cumstances that have made necessary the trip to this country to “try to peddle her plays.” Does Not Regret Past. “I shall stay here if T am allowed to,” she said. “Moral turpitude does seem a hard word for an act com- mitted in sincerity and at no time regretted. Adultery is not a crime in England, If it were all of the English nobility would be in jail. And if England had the same en. trance laws as America I don't think many American women would get in. A bitterness crept into the culti- vated English voice. Of her_ visit to Ellis Island,. the countess had no complaint to make. “I have been wonderfully treated,” she sald. “Comfortable room and a nice bath to myself, good food, and plenty of chance to see my friends and all the communication T wanted with the outside world. Ellis Island strikes me as_spotlessly clean and most cemfortable, and the officials have been windness itself—all quite different from the English newspaper accounts.” For occupation, while she walts for the decision in her case, the countess has been working to finish her most recent novel. Two already have been published in England. They are “The Woman Tempted,” and “It Came to Pass.” The latest:is called “What Shall Judge?” she said and laughed. “Rather good, isn't 1t?" Asked if ‘she had heard from many people in Eng- land, she answered: “Hundreds of cables, From my own friends, who sympathize, and advige me to stick It out, and many que: (Continued on Page 3, Column 4. K TOOK “ ME Too LITERALLY! OF ANTISALOON LEAGUE IS ASKED “Insidious Influence” of Bo Merits Inquiry by Con- gress, Britten Says. |CONTROL OF ELECTIONS VOTE TOMORROW House Probably Will 0. K. Five-Year $50,000,000 Plan for D. C. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Carrying $50,000,000 for a five.year program to relieve the more pressing needs for housing the most important activities of the Government in Wash ington in Federal-owned buildings, the $165,000,000 public building bill the first bill of its kind in 13 vears- comes up for consideration in the House tomorrow, with & very Strong prospect that it will be passed. The action of the House will be quick. Coming up under suspension of rules, only 40 minutes is aliowed for general debate; there will be no opportunity for amendments, and the measure will be accepted or rejected without change. It will take a two- thirds vote to pass it, but a careful canvass of the House shows that un- less something unforseen happens there will be a safe majority. An iden- tica! bill is awaiting action on the Senate calendar. The bill contains $50,000.000 for the Natfonal Capital. $100,000.000 for new public buildings throughout the coun- tre. and $15,000,000 for completion of building projects already authorized. Local Item Safe. There is no uneasiness about the $50,000,000 for Government bulldings in Washington—-as a matter of fact, the local provision is what is reall pulling the general program through. In the committee on public buildings and grounds and in the House the members have taken the provision for bulldings in Washington as “sine qua non,” a foregone conclusion. The only murmur of opposition has been from those few members who did not realize that the buildings to be built here are for the use of the Federal Government and have nothing at all to do with the municipality District of Columblia. It is almost certain that a large buflding to house the Internal Rev- enue Bureau will the first one started here. This probably will be followed by a building large enough to house all the activities of the Con- troller General's office, so that the substantive law for concentration and unification of the auditing of Govern- ment expenditures may actually be- come effective. The only real fight in the House to- morrow will be over the method of determining where the new buildings throughout the States will be located and how much will be spent on each. The Elliott bill leaves that decision to the Secretary of the Treasury, under whose administration comes the super- vising architect—with a provision that the Secretary of the Treasury shall have the advice of the Postmaster General on proposed bulldings to be used as post offices. Pork Barrel Campaign. Representative Busby, Democrat, of Mississippl, is leading the fight against the bill for the principle of the old time “pork barrel” method uj which the bill would name specifically where each project wowld be located and the allowance of funds made for each. In fact, Mr. Busby introduced a bill of this character. he included new buildings at a cost of $65,000 each in three small towns In his district—Kosciuaco, OKolona and Winona—which have a total pop ulation of about 9,000 persons. Mr. Busby's district comprises 11 coun- tles and the total population is only 192,927, ‘As a matter of fact, the members of the House generally know, and there {s no question about that fact, that this is the only kind of a public butld- ing bill 'that has any chance at all of passing. _Either it is this bill or no (Continued on Page 3, Column 2, GIRLS TIE UP “GHOST.” Student Sent to Frighten Them Found Lashed to Tombstone. PEORIA, Ill., February 13 (®.—A young man was found today tled to a tombstone in St. Joseph's Cemetery here with a tattered sheet at his feet. He told the astounded police that he was there because girl students from Bradley Institute insisted upon tying him up. He said he had been sta- tioned in the cemetery to frighten the girls, who were being initiated into a sorority. His ghostlike attire and fearsome groans had little effect. The girls sailed in, pulled his hair, ripped off his masquerade and used stout ropes in lashing him to a gravestone. of the | Incidentally | TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—0 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. nd Colleges—Pmges 26 and 27. ents—Page Veteran Radio Gossip and anish PART TV s Iditorials and Editorial Features Washington and Other Society Notes of Art and Ar Page 4 Reviews of Newest W\ Books— Page 4 Tales of Well Known Folk News of the Clubs—F D). A. R. Activitles—Pa Parent-Teacher Activities nter 1ge 15 17 19 P PART THREE—I12 PAGES Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- play. Music in Washington—Page 5 Motors Motoring—FPages and 8. Fraternal News—Page Civillan Army News—Iac PART FOUR—4 PAGES Pink Sports Section. PART FIVE—8 PAGES. Magazine Section—Fiction and Fea- tures. PART SIX—12 Classified Advertising At the Community Centers—Page T. District National Guard—Page §. Army and Navy News—Page §. Financial News—Pages 9, 10 and GRAPHIC SECTIO 12 PAGES. ‘World Events in Pictur COMIC SECTION—i PAGES Betty; Reg'lar Fellers; Mr. and Mr: Mutt and Jeff. FIREMAN IS INJURED WHILE SAVING CHILD Another Cut Keeping Mother From Blaze in K Street Apart- ment House. 6. PAGES. through dense Bartelmess, of Battling his way smoke, Lieut. C. D. No. 2 Engine Company, carried Ruth McDuff, 5 vears old. to safety late vesterday afternoon during a fire at her home in an apartment house at 1115 K street. The fire broke out in the rear of the first floor, and Lieut. Bartelmess, burned his right arm in getting into the hall way in order to rescue the little girl on the fourth floor. When he reached the foot of the stairway from the second floor Lieut. Bartelmess found Mrs. Cellia McDuff, mother of Ruth, vainly attempting to make her way through the smoke upstairs to the little girl. Two fire- men who followed the lieutenant were ordered to prevent Mrs. McDuff fol- lowing up the stairway, and Bartle- mess went after Ruth. Capt. J. R. Groves of the rescue squad of the Fire Department during his struggle with the mother to take i her to a place of safety, was cut about the body, which necessitated treat- ment at’ Emergency Hospital and six r | stitches in his back. The fire is believed to have started in trash on the rear of the ground floor of the apartment house, and the damage is estimated at $1,500. Louis E. Shelton of Chevy Chase, Md., owns the building and Miss Mamie Spaid, who occupied the apartment where the fire is believed to have started, dis- covered the blaze. Much of the dam- age included injury to her personal be- longings. 1. | | < | to Miami CHARLES . C DIES IN FLORIDA - kFormer President of Baking Firm Succumbs While Watching Polo Game. which was brief. said Nautilus was stricken. Mi had been regular polo zames there, the 1 st night. and it w stood his wife was with him time of his death. Mr. and Mrs. Corby went Florida early in January with intention of remaining until April They took with them their grand- child, Mary Ellen, 10-year-old daugh- ter of Mr. Corby's son, Karl W. Corby, present head of the Corby Baking Co. Mary Ellen's ill health was one of the reasons for thelr trip South, it is said Had Been in Good Health. According to his brother. Mr. Corby had been in good health and consequently his sudden death was a severe shock to relatives. The ex act cause of death was mot known | here night. rl Corby passed through Wash ington early list night on his way | He learned of his fathe; death while in New York City Charles Corby was & man treme reticence and exceptio ness ability. His rise from gling start in a small bakinz busi ness to head of one of the largest baking concerns in the country was Born at Binghamton, N. Y. in 1571, the son of Israel L. and Louisa A. Corby, he was educated in the schools of Cortland, N. Y. and at Cornell University. He came to Washington in 1891 to | join his brother, W' S. Corby, founder of the Corby Bake! and the two formed a co-partnership soon after, with headquarters at 520 Twelfth street. This was a small venture with crude baking equipment, but the busi- ness grew and later the plant was Corby at the o the of ex al b strug- | marked by hard work (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) -— CHARLESTON IS BANNED. Interfered With Study at B'Iercers. burg, Say Teachers. MERCERSBURG, Pa., February 13 !> (#).—The Charleston has been banned and phonograph plaving restricted at Mercersburg Academy. where the sons of President Coolidge formerly were students. While the Charles- toning at the academy hus been of the tag” variety, so vigorous has it beeen that plaster has been knocked down, floors shaken and carpets dam- zed, the school authorities said. ixaminations also were being “flunked” and hence the partial ban on_ phonographs, the authorities added. Phonographs now may be played for three and one-half hours in the evening. Although Titta Ruffo, noted bari- tone, is reported to have been ill with influenza in New York for the past 10 days, his scheduled appearance here last night with the Chicago Civic Opera Company’s production of “Rigoletto” was advertised as late as yesterday afternoon. Posters displayed in the lobby. of the Auditorium last night in- formed the audience that Ruffo could not appear because of illness. Inquiries at the box office in the Auditorium and at the ticket office of Mrs. Greene's bureau as late as 4 o'clock yesterday afterncon elicited the response that Ruffo would sing. In one case the answer was modified by the assertion that “as far as we know he will sing.” The Star was informed last night by a correspondent in New York who interviewed Ruffo that the singer can- celed his engagement here early yes- terday and left for Cleveland last night. He has been confined to his Ruffo’s Failure to Sing in “Rigoletto” Is Given Belated Announcement Here hotel there for several days, it was as- serted, and his illness is complicated by a troublesome cough. The failure of Ruffo to put in an appearance here last night somewhat similar to an incident in Baltimore last Monday night which aroused unfavorable newspaper com- ment there. It was not until the intermission between the first and second acts of “Tosca,” in which he ‘was scheduled to appear, that the in- ability of Ruffo to be present was an- nounced. Publicity representatives Katle Wilson-Greene, ing the Chicago Civic Opera Co.'s productions here, informed The Star last night that on Wednesday definite word was received that Ruffo would sing last night, and it was not until yesterday morning that it was learned he could not appear. At that time, it ‘was stated, an unsuccessful effort was made to revise newspaper advertise- ments. for Mrs | which | dent of the | made only with the sanction and & was | vho is manag- | HELD ONE AIM OF BODY Urges $50.000 Be Voted for Search- ing Study of Affairs of Society Nationally. insidious infiu the Anti-Saloon over reasury Depart appointment of prohibition en officers, emphasizing that State head of this orzaniz as just served a penitent m, and that the attorney nd a justice of the Supreme ¢ Kt have heen shown to be on th gue’s pay roll while holding public Representative Eritte nois cement ner ad rt | duced resoluti investigation compr five House and three of the resoluti author priation of $50,000 to as Anti and its raised and of monev, the expenditure of which have not heen made public The ) pred leagus ulent and misleading entions and purposes > establish _at’ any cost complete prohibition and not alone to abolish the saloon 18 of money uence pub s wholly own as of America r ave expended smount by ave been opintons uspected rectly profes A throughout United States. and particularly in District of Columbi many years the ve oper the national paisn contributions Taw and the ¢ Pt practices laws of the several and certain of the States Says Volstead Got Reward. i-Saloon League of Amer ica did pi upaign expenses of An drew J ead while he was chaf man of the committee on the judiciary. committee favorably reported 3 ed the now famous ana discredited lled Vol other | under. | The 3 Anti-saloon League of Amer credited with having zhteenth amendment titution of the United as well as the national prohibitio the Congress of the United States well as enforcement acts by t islatures of many States of the on This same secret organization attempted to influence Federal jud cial appointments, has publicly de nounced judicial officers and decisions has attempted to influence the Presi United States in his 2 & of heads of departments as actually exercised its insidious in fluence succeesfuliy upon the Bureau Internal Revenue of the T | Depurtment to the extent that ap pointments of persons under the pro hibltion commissioner have beei pointmer | proval of the said Anti-Saloon League of America High officials of this secret organ ization or its subsidiaries have been sent to State penitentiaries for col lecting large sums of money unde: | falte pretenses. while on the othe: hand it has recently been shown th a justice of a State Supreme Cot {and un attorney general of a sov tate of the Union have long been on the pay roll of the Antf Saloon League The welfare of the State and the Nation are jeopardized when public | officials elected Dby the State to en | force all laws are receiving two sal aries, one other from corporation **Althon no names ereizn an said Mr. Britten in an au thorized statement, indireetly 1 fers to Willlam H. Anderson, forme head of the Anti-Saloon Leagus for ew York. who has just completed a term in Sing Sing and it also refers directly to Justice Richard J. Hop. | kins of the State Supreme Court and Attorney General Charles B. Griffith. {both of Kansas, who were credited of the Kans. Sees Inquiry’'s Worth “The appropriation of $50,000," i Britten explained, “is a trivial ex { penditure when compared with the $18,000.000 it will cost the taxpayer- this year to enforce the silly Volstead law. and I am sure that an in | vestigation of this character would be of lasting benefit to the countrs for it would settie the question of whether the Anti-Saloon League was really operating within the law, and if it is, it should have no fear of a thorough inquiry by an unprejudiced committee of the Senate and the House. “If the chairman of the committec on paval affairs received campaign contributions from shipbuilders who benefited by legisiation coming before the naval affairs committee, and if the chairman of the committee on interstate and <araign commerce ré ceived campaign coutributions from the American Raflway Assocition, and if thg chairman of the committee | on. military affairs received campaign contributions from the manufacturers | of munitions. and if the chairman of the committee on agriculture received campaign contributions from an or ganization of farmers. the country would rise in arms and these respec tive leglslators could not remain in Congress one week, vet the Anti aloon League, operating under fi= veligious cloak and the support of the Methodist Church, has contributed (Continued on Page 4, Column 2. 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