Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1926, Page 17

THE “EVENING STAR, WAS . WEDNESDAY, HINGTON, D. 21, pd ‘APRIL THAT MIDN 1515t annivers: Sergt. Geoffrey F William Dawes, played by 2 OF P, amous Clifford pla; MEMORIAL Monument y unveiled, Mrs. A. Tho e 1 delegates to the congress aftended. "~ BUTLER HOLDS AGT VITAL T0 SERVIGE Discipline Demanded Wil liams’ Punishment, Chief Says. Assailing Critics. STONE FOR MONUM St iated Pre YORK, ! Criticism of social Alexander is an uedley D. patch from San Diego, ew York World today. discipline in this _eom- says Gen. Butler, “will be waintained despite all blufling by well organized propagandists to the con By the As NEW he swered Butle Calif h L defense or explanatio t g zle on th parent public: intimid inspired view to murderous niined to me been extended. sness, to the glorious ecord of the Marine Corps. * * * Says Mud V Mud has been thrown in a futile effort to steer the public mind away from the re: y The statement s ulations, issued in ts of Con forbidden ¢ and that amendnie Thrown. t naval re with have vice rteenth with the tatement er of the committed a and publicly, and his commanding disciplinary t accordance facts, the that a m service »wingly in the p officer. act allowed to away with 1t cipline then any one the breakdown of 1l other violations statement proceeds, | A s Foes of Action “In their frantic but futile 1o gain their ends, sympathizers with luw-breaking have even twisted the facts in order to loudly invoke the code of social ethics, not because it applies in the slightest degree, but because of its strong popular appeal. Will some so-called arbiter de- termine the lenzth > a guest must respect the of his Jaw-breaking host “I wish to_acknowledge a debt of gratitude to Rear Admiral Ashley H. Robertson, who, with full knowledge of the facts, so courageously and pub- licly stood by me. His exumple is in- spiring.” Conviction Col. drunkenn it court-martial hearing o adjourned in San D without notice of O efforts le immunity jiams for 4 when the his S0 WS Monday of hf measles Health for the Ope hundred new cases were reported to the District Depariment today. Th 1 Sergt. George A. Deyarmond. sterday, when the North Dakota memorial stone was Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, pres il 18 was the horseback stunt of the patriot, so Lexington, Mass., st 1 ceremony. 1 the part of Paul Revere, and the photograph shows him being met by Capyright by P. & A. Photos. UL REVER Miss Betty Chase, daughter of Admiral John 0. com- mandant of the Brewerton, Wash., Navy Yard, who served as sponsor of the new Navy ship, the Hol'and. 'T. Ceremony at the Washington dent general of the D. A. R. sent of North and othe STREET PAVING TAX REPEAL DEMANDED Citizens’ Council Reiterates Its Stand Against Bor- land Act. first adverse reaction 1o the of the District Commission- modification of the Bor- to relieve abutting pr y special assessments for street resurfacing came last night when the Citizens’ Advisory Council voie unanimously to iterate its previous stand demanding repeal of the law. he council took the position that the Borland act imposes upon abut ting property heavy and inequitable tax burdens for street and road con struction. Relief Long Sought.y )ur citizens, through our civic an ade bodies with great unanimity,” | | declared the council, “have long and | | persistently petitioned for relief | Enactment by the last Congress of ‘lh(‘ gasoline tax law has recognized !a principle of responsibility opposed to that involved in the Borland amendment. The responsibility of the users of ihe streets now being defi- nitely established, it would seem that it should likewise be | d con a gen property The proposal | S received a royal greeting aboard the Argen s to seek land amendment of K Foreign Service School Represented Commission. ion and maintenance ! rather than an abutting ligation. A letter from Engineer Commis- sicner J. Franklin Bel! expressing the opinion that Congress would not re. peal the law and as | the council on the proposed. compro- | { mise substitute im.k-»d the action. vin C. Bichholz of Wayneshoro, 1 Similar letters, togetfer with o text | Charlés I, Kunkel of New Cu of the bill providing for modification | lana, Pa.; Mason I. Ford of Ch of the law, huve been sent to all trade |TIl, und Frank A. and civic organizations in the District | Ark, for_consideration. | This group of students The bill sponsored by Representa- |country to the list of 41 foreign coun- tive Fish of New York to regulate so- | tries where former students of the licitation for charitable causes was |school are now stationed, representing |disapproved. A report recommending |either the Government or private in- this action was submitted by Proctor | terests. L. Dougherty. The report declared | Mr. Dupuis, who has been a resident there is no oxisting evil which the |of Washington for the last three | measure is designed to cure and that |yvears, graduated from the Foreign {its constitutionality is dublous, as it | Service School last June. Since that | would regulate solicitations in stores, | time he has been taking a post gradu- and other private properties as |ate course at the school. Mr. Eichhol s on the streets and in public | entered the school four year: | buildings. ! qualified for ! The council » disapproved the | hill to regulate the practice of ose eopathy. Dr. George H. Richard- son, who reported on the measure, | | said it was drawn frem the stand- point of protecting the status of os- | teopaths instead of protecting the “ive students of the George ted to positions on the rica Plebiscite ng from New York to- appo the sion, e s mes Dupuis of Spokane, Waskh ! plete his studies. Another of the studerts, Mr. Kun- kel, has been at the school three years. | He was a lieutenant in the Navy dur- ing the war and_ saw considerable | public. A bill to regulate chiroprac-duty as an aviator? He also was com- | tors already has been approved by | mander of four twin motor flying | the council. boats patrolling the North Sea bomb- | The widening of Harvard street |ing submarines and escorting con- | | voys In the English Channel. | from Adams Mills road to the en- ford received his bachelor’s National Zoological a bill now s approved, | but i for the | the four y town he. I aftaivs, He ws cent prom, trance of the as prop in Cong: @ measure prov of ) street and DBudes in Park. | pending As s he hs ve in man of the re- ~enio ago, | s diploma and then took | a trip abroad in export work. He re-| cently returned to the school to com-|bush: + ALFONSO GREETS SPA completed the air trip from Spain to South America, | | on Staff of Tacna-Arica Plebiscite ' iz the views of | orrow for Peru. These men are I.|(he lowest type of human life, hav Loda of Camden.d op finding lost tribes in the Kalahari| \ad another | De | the the Midwinter convocation, | annihfiated by more warlike people, continuing his studies. During ‘ disease and starvation. We found the been at George- | school | The; BATTLE FLEET. The V. Holland, sub rnder and ship of the Navy, ched a fd days ago at Brewerton, Instead of b -onstructed on the ways, the ship was built in the navy yard drydock, Copyright by Underwoad & Underwood NEWEST ADDITIO! SUCCESSFUL. Dr. James Harris the best known radio inventor, well. He has radio, and Wide World Photo RADIO EXPERIMENTS ARE Rogers of Hyattsville, Md., probabl experimenting with his antennae which is buried been suceessful with underwater d underground experiments have continued through many years NISH AVIATORS WHO MADE THE MADRID-BUENOS AIRES FLIGHT. eturned in triumph to their own country, tine battleship Buenos Al veelved a royal grecting aboand the Argentine baiticahip Buenos Ales, _____ FIVE G. U. STUDENTS 'PIGMIES THAT OUTRUN GAZELLES ON SPECIAL MISSION ARE FOUND IN AFRICAN DESERT‘ American Explorers Claim Men Four to Four and a Half Feet Tall Are World’s Fastest Humans and Lowest Mental Type. By tho A ssGCIAIed E o jand a half feet in height. They hvfl-e CEW YORK, April 21. — Descrip-| no houses or huts and often go with- e 13 Bop m‘" | out food for long intervals. The men tons of primitive negroid PYEMIeS.| i yiitrun gazelles When the bushman reaches the been brought back from Darkes :marryin;,; age, he Eivksr m‘x‘z m?hrutu;e = . % aEn o wife and informs her father that she Africa by three explorers of the ;i Popoice Etiquette demands that Jenver-African expedition. They told | the father express doubt and ask for proof of the suitor’s affections. Where bushmen whose language con-| upon the bushman gives chase to & hed as “clicks,” | gazelle or some other fleet-footed m the | beast and,” after a marathon of 7 ittest|or 8 miles, tires it out, captures it and brings it to the lady’s home. All that remains is the wedding. IRELAND TO MINT COINS. ert, ts of sounds descri and short-legged primitives who explorers_believed to be the sw runners in the world. The three explorers are Dr. C. B.| Cadle, Grant H. John and Paul Haef- ler, all of Denver. They reached New | York last night on the steamship| Majestic, bringing pictures and tro-| phies for a Denver museum. Food Wins Welcome. Gifts of food and trinkets won the| explorers a genuine welcome from the | men. In reaching their territory| DUBLIN, April 21 (#).—Ireland is expedition went through the|to mint her own coins for the first Koroo Desert. ! time {n 100 years. The law assimilat. “Although they call it a desert,”|ing Ireland’s currency with that of Dr. Cadle sdiid, “we went through|England was passed in 1825, but the 300 miles of flower beds, and the flow-| Free State Parliament recently de- ers were all in bloom. cided to establish a token silver, nickel “WWe went to study the bushmen be-|and copper coinage for amounts up to cause they are a nomadic people who |40 shillings (about $10). Eminent are rapidly passing from existence.|artists have been asked to assist the They were the primitives| of South|government in the designs of the new Africa, and they have been gradually | coins. | First Token Money in 100 Years Authorized by Free State. by the Danish kings of Dublin in the tenth or eleventh century, and in medieval times there were mints in m:lmin. Waterford, Trim_ and Drog tribes in the Kalahari Desert. are the lowest anthropological types. in every respect.” The pigmies vary from four to four los The first Irish colns were struck | GIFTS FROM FOREIGN GOVEINM sudaira, Japanese Ambassador (left ne. At the same time, the Leonidas Vadenlitch ( N center. Jacqueline Smith, great-great-great- granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson, at the recent Jefferson breakfast in Washington. She represented “Polly” Jefferson of 1781, Copyright by Harrs & Ew | Moore woul The birdmen who s i and this photograph was taken when they Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. {SCORE NOMINATED IN CAPITOL HEIGHTS | Mayor Finger for Third Term to | Be Opposed by Luckett and Lare May 3. Special Dispatch to The Sta CAPITOL HEIGHTS 21.—Three candidates for for treasurer and 15 for the cilmanic seats were nominated at a mass convention held last night in Prince Georges Theater. |\'oters ‘were present, Mayor George Finger was renomi- nated for a third term as an inde- pendent candidate. Thom: J. Luck- ett, a World War veteran, was nomi- nated for mayor to represent the Peo- ple’s party and Joseph R. Lare was nominated for that office as candidate of the Party of the People. For treas- urer George W. Nair was named on the Finger ticket and Clinton G. Light to run with Luckett. Treasurer Wil- tliam H. McGinnis declined to run for {another term on account of ill-health. ! I. W. Simmons, Harry Well | Harry L. Adams, Selig Posin, Frani | Lawrence, George W. Smith, Calvin | Bladen, John Morris, George Trudge, | George Abbot, C. A. Kamm. David Hailer, Henry Roth, Leo Litz and James Burrett were {he councilmanic Md i April or, 2 nominees. <The election will be held | May 3, for two-year terms. Walter S. Oliver presided over the meeting. During a speech of Mayor Finger fol- lowing the nominations about 20 dele- gates, said to be aligned with Luckett, left the buflding. DAl s Spanish Flyers Leave for Rangoon. CALCUTTA, India, April 21 (#).— .The Spanish fiyers, Capt. Loriga and Gonzales-Gallarza, engaged in a flight from Madrid to Manila, took off from here yesterday for Rangoon, 530 miles ‘fi&y. e et ght), presented an embroidered altar cloth from his government. coun- | About 300 Tsuneo thedral of St. John the Croats and Slovenes, Bish g\ Manning 3 & T vases to the ( of thr Serbs, , presented to cloisonne etary of the consul general Copyright by Underwo MAKING THE “FLATTEST FLAT” IN THE WORLI J. Clacey of the Bureau of Standards polish a disc of fused quartz which is the “flattest flat"" on earth. The ch will be used by the bureau in standardizing the master gauge blocks of manufacturing plants, is absolutely flat to one-five-millionth of an i Copyright by P. & A. Photo PEACE IN PASSAIC - DOCTORS PROPOSE DISPUTE LOOMING. U. S. SELL WHISKY Negotiations Held Up Pending Would Have Whole Supply So Acceptance of Owners, Al- Distributed if Present ready Indicated. Law Is Invalid. By sciated Prese. DALLA mendation that the Government pu all medicinal whicky in _the ountry and dispense it through Fed chase ail medicinal whisky in_the event the United States Supreme Court lolds unconstitutional the present laws overning liquor prescriptions, was the house of delegates of the n Medical Association here ay. e brought by Samuel Lambert <, challenging the author to limit the amount of whisk ician may prescribe, is now before the Supreme Court hould the court sustain Lambert, regulations covering medicinal liquor would be within the dise ry_power of the commissioner of internal revenue, the phy ans maintain. Would Assure Pruity. the proposals approved by the physicians, a pharmacy or other | place where liquor may be lawfully dispensed under the State law could be designated as a Government subdepot The Government would be required to see to the purity of all liquor dis pensed. Other regulations proposed provide that when a physician prescribes more than one pint of liquor in 30 days he shall accompany the prescription with a certificate that the excess is a medi cal necessity, copy of the certificate to be mailed to the nearest prohibi tion administrator; that the person buying preseription liquor shall certify that it is to be used only for medicinal purposes; that the allowance of liquors to physicians for emergency use be reduced so as to not exceed two quarts annually, not more than one pint to be purchased at a time and that the amount of alcohol for | other than internal uses be reduced to not more than three gallons yearly unless a physician produces evidence that the nature of his practice re quires more. Approved by Andrews. The hoard announced that the pro posed regulation providing a physi cian’s certificate when more than one | pint is prescribed in 30 days had been officially approved by Gen L. C. Andrews, in charge of prohibition en forcemen A ples cal science Wendell C. his inaugu . Tex.. April 2l.—Recom a settlement of the strike await- s to for 10.0005 textile workers today ed the answer of the mill owne Gov. ition proposal. the owners have in discussion with Gov be welcomed. but they have made no formal announcement. ~diation Loard of four members v has been appointed by the pvernor. Immediately sfter the an- | nouncement of the board’s appoint- ment leaders of the strikers said they yere ready to confer with the miil \whners or co-operate with an outside ward for conciliation. chase dicated ity of C Governor on Board. Moore himself will be a mem the mediation board. Albert d, chief leader of the Henry Hunt Gov her | Weis | s the strikers in the negotiations. Vader | Besides Gov. Moore the members | comprise _the jation board Henry Hilfers, secretary of the New Jersey State Federation of Labe Gen. Bird W. Spencer and Adj Gen. Gilkyson of the National Guard. The governor empowered Hilfers to make advances to the strikers through \the board. Samuel Untermj N ork attorney, still i¢ in Washington on behalf of the strikers, seeking a Senate inquiry into the strike, which < now in its thirteenth week. Accuses Mill Owners. During the hearing vesterday on the | resolution to authorize an inquiry he | | charged that the mill owners had re- fused to arbitrate. Administration of | justfee has broken down completely in the strike area, he declared, and police in Passaic and Bergen Counties have degenerated into a mob.” William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, in a statement issued last night in New York, said “The authoritics of New Jersey are violating the fundamental law of the land when they interfere with peaceful assemblage and free speech The striking workers are not mem Ibers of the American Federation of Labor. EiRbogen s ik Boys Missing From Homes. Twelveyear-old Dexter Gates. 1 Monroe street, and 7-year-old Eugene | ireet, 4836 Conduit road, are reported missing from their respective homes. It is not a new story with them, both | ever, according to the police, both boys having previously absented | — themselves from their homes. ini e iios diabpebsen Munday: | Orderedito Fruiding Iity. police were told, and. word was re. | Second Lieut. Christopher M. Zepp. ceived Monday that he was in the Quartermaster Corps Reserve, of this northwest section. He was not there, | city, has been ordered to report to archers appeared. | the ‘commanding officer, Washington Youngz Greet disappeared from home | zeneral intermediate depot, this city. aboul 10 o'clock yesterday morning. 'for dut¥ in training until May 18, for more publicty for medi made tonight by Dr. Phillips of New York in al address as president of