Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1926, Page 17

PLACING WREATH AT BAS Clubs of the District of Columbia, placing a wreath. Delegates from all the Masonic clubs attended the ceremony. SONS OF REVOLUTION CEREMONY. a wreath at the base of the Washington statue, in Washington C The ceremony was under the auspices of the District or- ganization of the Sons of the Revolution. vesterday. FRENCH GET CROWN JEWELS OF RUSSIA " $2,924,550 Paid for Part of Imperial Gems as American ! Group Is Outbhid. By tho Associated Press MOSCOW, meralds eighing about 30,0 ats and comprising vart of the Russian crown jewels, be- ame the property yesterday of I'rench diamond nerchants, who paid he Soviet government $2,924,550 for ihe lot, or $135,800 more than offered American jeweler Among the jewels was the magnifi- cent crown worn by the last empress. It will be disjointed and the stones scattered on the French market. Jewelers from a dozen capitals, who bad flocked to Moscow when it was announced that the government in- tended to dispose of the imperial gems, contended sharply against the Americans for possession of the jewels. Most of the bidders, however, retired when the government decided that it would sell only a minimum of £2,500,000 wWorth of stones at one time. This left the field to the Anglo-Ameri- an group and the Armenian buyer, Frankiano, representing a number of FParls firms. The government had Frankiano's initial offer of § when William Reswiel Ny lawyer, representing the Anglo-Ame; n’group, alleged to the Kremlin offi- at his group had not been counter Frankiano's ;overnment thereupon an- | ale and ordered new bids. | icans then made a | ,750, but this ith $2,92 property of amonds, accepted fresh offer of §: opped by F and the gems b the firms he represented. Although the Americans thus lost | the first chance to acquire a part of | amous imperlal treasures, the in- of the S the Bolshev government would other- wize have lost WHEAT POOL DELEGATES INVITED TO AUSTRALIA Project for Co-operation Between Organizations in Two Domin- ions in Prospect. Ey the Associated Press. WINNIPEG, February 23.—The four Australian wheat pools have ex- tended an invitation to the Canadian wheat pools to send a delegation to Australia in August to confer with pool representatives there. J. M. McDonald of Adelaide, South Australia, who attended the recent international co-operative wheat pool conference at St. Paul, Minn., says that after the conference at . Paul | he reach the conclusion that the Ca- nadian and Australian wheat pools could work together, provided the four Australian pools came up to the standard of the Canadian pools, and, like them, fi ed a central.selling | tendency | association voted down a motion of | sioners in seeking legislation for the organization. At present the Aus tralfan pools compete against each | other as regards selling. Mr. McDonald added th convinced that the * nools had been instrument: nilizing wheat prices during OF THE WASHINGTON MONUMEN Commissioner Rudolph placing cle, Copsright by Harris & Ewing. T YESTERDAY. Maj. Gen. Amos A. BALTIMORE RU! ER WINS MODIFIED MARATHON. Fries, representing the Masonic Copyright by P. & A. Photos. Senator Copeland of New York presenting the winning cup of the Aloysius modi- fied marathon to William Agee of the Emorywood Athletic Club, Bahi- more, yesterday. UPSHAW DEPLORES | VOTELESS CAPITAL Travesty on American and Democratic Ideals, He Tells Citizens’ Body. Washington's voteless plight referred to as 4 travesty on every- thing American_and democrati Representative Upshaw of Georgia in & Washington's Birthday speech be- fore a meeting of the North Capitol Citiz Association in the Sunday school room of the United Brethren Church, North Capitol and R streets, last night. He deplored that boys and girls in the Nation’s Capital, “at the fountain-head of citizenship, re- peating the oath, pledging allegiance and saluting the flag and imbued with the spirit of everything American, be- ing compelled on reaching 21 years of age to move to Maryland or Vir- ginia or some other State in order to attain complete ciitzenship with the right of the ballot.” ‘Washington, he said, would use all means at hand, including the Army and Navy, to blot out the illicit liquor trade and enforce the eighteenth amendment. He concluded his talk™ by reading a copy of Washington" general order in which the increasing toward profanity in the Army was deplored. After considerable discussion the A. Nelson to demand the res tion of Jesse C. Suter as president of the Iederation of Citizens' Assoca- tions, for his affiliation with the Coal Merchants’ Board of Trade. William G. Henderson, delegate to the Federation of Cltizens' Associa- tions was chosen as the association’s nominee for membership on the Citl- zens’ Advisory Council. On recom- mendation of the committee on pub- lic utilitles it was voted to favor the installation of ornamental trolley poles at the sldes of North Capitol street, with electric lights thereon, in- stead of the present overhead trolley system. Indorsement was given to the efforts of the District Commis- elimination of all steam railroad grade crossings in the District. Actlon was taken to request the Comumissioners to install lights, curb- ing, gutters and new paving on V street from First to Rhode Island avenue. Repairs to street paving also was urged for Todd place between first and Second streets, P street from North Capitol to Second street and on Lincoln road. Extension of the signal lighting system on Rhode Is- land avenue from Iowa Circle to North Capitol street also will be re- Quested. Mrs. Joseph D. Stimson sang a solo, 'he Outlaw,” dedicated to Rep- resentative Upshaw. She was ac- companied on the piano by her son, Jesse Stimson. President Henry Gi ligan presided. LANDMARK DOOMED. Another I street landmark in the vicinity of Fourteenth street will soon disappear with the razing of Lose- kam's restaurant at 1323 F° street. The winner covered the 10 miles in 54:48 1. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1926. DISTRICT BOY SCOUTS MAKE THEIR ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO MOUNT VERNON. The.photograph chows the color guard of the or- ganization in front of the mansion yesterday. The various troops placed wreaths at the tomb of Washington. Ver., Countess of Cathcart, is happy when che gets a permit to remain 10 days in the United States. This rhotograph was taken when she.was released from Ellis Island on a $500 Eond. Wide World Photos. Copyright by P. & A. Photos STUDENT RECEIVES MEDAL FOR HER ESSAY ON EDMUND BURKE. Col. C. E. C. G. Charlton, mili- tary Richards, U. S. M. C. LEADERS OF THE WETS WHO CALL FOR AN IMMEDIATE MODIFICATION OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT. The association against the pro- hibition [nend:nent held a celebration in Washington yesterday, ending with a banquet at the Mayflower Hotel last night, when Representative John P. Hill of Maryland (right) read George Washington’s recipe for beer-making. Left to right: Representative Sosnowski of Michigan, Rev. James Empringham, superintendent of the Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Senator Edwards of New Jersey and Representative Hill GIVEN PRISON TERM FOR GRAVE ROBBERY | Former Broker of Binghamton, N. Y., Confesses Crime and Is Sen- tenced to Hard Labor. By the Associated Press. DELHI, N. Y., February 23.—Fred G. Beale of Binghamton pleaded guil- ty to a grave robbery charge in Dela- ware County Court yesterday and was sentenced to from two to four years at hard labor in Auburn prison. Beale related to County Judge An- drew J. McNaught all of his move- ments since the night of September 26 last, when he robbed the grave of James H. Davis in a little cemetery near Hancock and afterward set the body plunging over a cliff in his auto: mobile in an attempt to make his friends and business associates be- lieve he had been killed in an accl- dent. He was arrested recently in Miami, Fla. Indictments charging grand larceny (and first degree forgery, which stand aglinst him in Broome, Sullivan and Delaware Countles for his alleged mismanagement of the Mobinco Brok- erage Co. of Binghamton, of which he was president, will be held in abey- ance, it is understood, until he has com] his prison sentence. Beale will be taken to Auburn tomorrow. Beale assured Judge McNaught that he acted “absolutely alone” in robbing the grave. He told how he had fled from Hancock on the night of the robbery. He sald he had made con- siderable money selling real estate in This building has stood opposite the site of the old Ebbitt Hotel for ap- proximately avs, und was once tion to Gen. hed ung | Florida and would have made more had he not been captured. s PR ) i"iowers cut in the early mo ng b | fore they : re in full blossom last long: dok shaen shaoss cut 1aia i sha Sake Copyright by P. & A. Photos. JOHNS HOPKINS ANNOUNCES PLAN $66,950 IN JEWELS TO RETURN TO GRADUATE SYSTEM| STOLEN FROM HOME | Will Drop First Two Years Courses, President Good- (wife of Chicago Lumberman now Announces at Observance of 50th Anni- versary of Institution—Work Is Extolled. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., February 23 Johns Hopkins University yesterday celebrated its half-century anniversary with an announcement of an impend-, ing return to its first principles of | graduate instruction and research. The alma mater of Rowland, the physicist; Remsen, the chemist; Os- ler, the physician; Stlverter, the mathematician; Morris, the classicist; Martin, the biologist, and Gildersleeve, the Grecian, will abolish the purely undergraduate first two years of its present curriculum and devote itself to research and preparation for re- search. ‘When the vision of President Frank J. Goodnow and its board of trustees has been realized, Johns Hopkins will grant doctor of philosophy and mas- ter degrees only outside of its medical and engineering schools. No date has been set for the change. It is esti- mated that an additional endowment of at least $6,000,000 will be raquired to put the plan into full effect and to make available higher salaries “to enable the university to add to the faculty men of outstanding ability.” Results Exceed Estimates. Fifty years ago, when the univer- sity’s first president, Daniel Coit Gil- man, was inaugurated, the trustees determined to devote the resources of Johns Hopkins to graduate education and research—at that time regarded as a mew and important venture in American education. hopes of 50 years ago,” vesterday’s Statement says, “a recent compilation of the leading men of science in the United States showing that 245 of them were trained at Johns Hopkins.' Research having enlarged the bound- aries of knowledge, including in_ col- legiate as well as graduate teaching much that was unknown 60 years ago, the statement continues, curricula have been expanded, and Johns Hop- kins, among other universities, has extended its activities to include fields not associated with research and preparation. “The increased number of students has required a more elaborate system of administrative organization, with the result that the professors and in- structors find too little time available for their proper function—research and stimulation of research.’ The Johns Hopkins plan contem- plates tha “Only such students will be at- tracted and selected as may possess the mental endowment and equipment for research. “More intensive training will be given such students, unhampered and unimpeded by the deadenfhg weight of numbers " Requirements for the two degrees to be granted, doctor of philosophy, which ordinarily requires four years of residence, and master, which ordl- narily requires three years of resi- dence, will be based on efficiency and accomplishment rather than on years of residence, ' 4 ) dollar & mpdical Gchool 4hd saginees- Fogipei Robbed in West—Loss Fully Covered by Insurance. PASADENA, Calif., February The loss by theft of $66,950 in jewels was reported to police here by Mrs. Edward C. Crosett, wife of a wealthy lumberman. The jewels, Mrs. Crosett told police, were stolen from the home of her pa- rents, with whom she is visiting. She sald that upon returning from a din- ner party Saturday night she placed the jewels on a bureau. When she awoke they were gone. Detectives investigating the rob- bery found no clue. The jewels were fully insured. Mrs. Crosett said that she was robbed of $70,000 in jewel last Summer at Cape Cod, Mas: ing school degrees will be continued, both of thess being now on .a’gradu ate basis, u;;l‘asldent Goodnow in his address “Johns Hopkins University has, so far as I know, never had a foot ball player chosen on an all-American team. It has had, however, the con- solation of good repute in scholarship. I venture to state that had it been the popular practice over the last 50 years to select allAr . :an teams in arts and sclences . ..ns Hopkins would frequently have been repre- sented. Lol LS o Send a dollar and learn how to get rid of static, a Kansas man adver- tised. A Topeka man sent*him a WL SPED PROB OF BODTLER LD Federal Jury in Cleveland to Hold Day and Night Ses- sions This Week. By the Associated Pre CLEVELAND, Ohio, 2 The Federal grand ) stigating an alleged nation-wide bootleg alcohol conspiracy began the third week of its deliberations here today with the intention of winding up the inquiry before another week end i#f possible. To speed up the investigation, both night and day sessions are to be held. A. E. Bernsteen, district attorney, was expected to return today with in- dictments drawn up for more than 20 implicated in the alleged con- spiracy, after having spent the week end in seclusion while preparing them. Subpoenas served during the last few days by Treasury Department intelligence men in Baltimore, Phila- delphia, Pittsburgh, Atlantic City and Providence will bring in new witness- es today and tomorrow. Through them the grand jury will endeavor to strike at the Eastern ring that is be- lieved to have controlled the Nation's illicit alcohol supply. Several details remain to be con- sidered in regard to the Western end of the conspiracy, which is believed | to have been concerned more with dis- | tribution of alcohol than with its man- ufacture. e DECLARES WASHINGTON WOULD FREE FILIPINOS "> Senator Osmena Pleads for Inde- pendence at Meeting of Island- ers and Americans. Granting of independence to the | Philippines would be in keeping with the ideals of George Washington in founding the American republic, Sen- ator Sergio Osmena, president pro- tempore of the Philippine Senate, de- clared at a Washington birthday gath- ering of Filipinos and Americans last night at the Playhouse, 1814 N street. Declaring insistent voices are heard pleading for a reversal of Amer- ica’s historic attitude toward the right of peoples freely to determine their own destiny and to pursue hap- piness in their own way,” Senator Os- mena added: “But there need be no fear that the America of George Washington will listen to the siren voices of those who would exchange her place of primacy in the noble effort to promote univer- sal concord and harmony for a policy of force, of power, and of dominion. Nor can there be any misgiving that the American people will ever con- sent, for selfish gain, permanently to deny to others that precious boon of liberty and self-government, which it took them seven years of conflict and suffering to wrest from the British crown.” Other speakers were: Representa- tive Frear of Wisconsin: former Rep- resentative C. H. Tavenner and Charles Edward Russell. The celebra- tion also included a musical program. —_—— The binding of grain on Belgian farms is done mainly by women, thejr labor being so cheap that.there is little for machinery to do the — At right: Admiral Hilary P. Jones, U. v attache of the British embassy, presenting a gold medal to Miss Grace Lorraine of Richmond, Va, & student of Gunston Hall School, for writing the prize-winning_essay on Edmund Burke. awarded by the Sons of the Revolution. The medal was At left: Brig. Gen. right by Harris & Ewing. NUSSOLIN FALIG " DESPITE DENIALS Friends Have Sorry Impres- sion of His Health, Says Correspondent. LONDON {of the fafling | solini of Italy ar 3 | the special correspondent of the Dally |E , Lady Drummond Hay, who interviewed the Iascl leader. By way of the frontier, she ends a dispatch from Rome in wh she says: ussolinl, as if urged by desper tion, steals the night hours to lengt en his overcrowded days. His as tounding efforts and achievemeats are |rapidly approaching the superhumar. | He challenges as impertinence the as | sumption that he is ill, yet those who |know him in his private moments | have a sorry impression of his health Photographers who have followed hiui professionally since he became pre | mier remark on the change that has |come over him; how much thinner he |is and how he has lost his physique “Those who are still more privileged have confided to me their mis; when they see how Mussolini’s often turns ashy gray and becom haggard and drawn. He frequently says, ‘I am hungry.” One of his intl mates said: *“The strict diet he is forced to fol low must be starvatlon. Milk and vegetable soups are not mn for n man of Mussolini’s consuming mental d b “Meanwhile the premier contin grimly to give the lie to rumors o sickness by his abnormal energy. “His long-deferred operation hs been declared unnecessary at pres ent."” The correspondent says that storles of a weakening vitality are giving the opposition a terrific weapon, and that { his enemies assert he is racing against |time to cheat his shortening days. “Premier Mussolini’s recent speech against Germany,” the dispatch con- \cludes,” was in nowise approved by all JItaly, but his friends who sought to excuse or condone it on the ground of indifferent health have only played into the hands of his enemies.” — SCHOOL WASTE SEEN. Virginia Rural District Resideats Assail “Frills and Fads.” Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., February 23.- Senator N. B. Early of Greene yester- day presented to the Senate a series of resolutions indorsing the action of the people of Albemarle in connection with the declared waste of public m‘:ney in the school system <of the The resolutions recited that the schools in the Tural districts are being subordinated to “frills, famcles and fads" that are worse than useless, that there is a great outlay of money for the books for the teaching of these things, that the time of pupils is being wasted, that the public funds are being ruthlessly squandered in the em- ployment of teachers for these worse- than-worthless things, that the teach ing of athletics is consuming time when the pupils in the rurdl districts get all of this that they need when at