Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1926, Page 5

> DAUGHTERS OF 1812 VISIT WHITE HOUSE Tablet in Memory of Dolly Madison Unveiled at Octagon House. President and Mre, Coolidge todav received at the White House a delega- | tion of the National Soclety of the United States Danghters of 1812, he Willard Associate Abont ion have reg convened th Hotel in the Conneil of morning * “Thirt the -four h socie members of the or fsiered for the ses feh witl Tast through Wednesday. Mrs. Otis I, Win headed the greun. respecis 1o the hiel Mrs. Coolinge. Early District Commissioners sentatives the Na members of the socieiy in nial at the Octagon House tablet in memory of Dollv was unveiled by the North chapter, o its Executive and this afternoon and vepre ot Dine. with Ma Wilbur Will Speak. of the Nav:r Wilbur to address the conve: this eve ning on the United States frizate | Constitution and tell of pians for the | reconstruction of “Old lronsides” as it | was when it went victoriousiy threigh erucial naval battles of American his tory The national Secretary president of the Daughters of 1812, Mrs, Samuel Pres. ton Davis. greeted the delegates a1 the ceremony the Octagon House shortly after noon. The tablet in memory of Mrs. Madison was pre sented hy Mrs. Gondwin . Ellsworth, president of the lncal chapter. and Commissioner Rudolph Aress of accenianes (O were Edward W. Donn Admiral ¥. ¢ Billasd, Unit Coast Guard. Rev. Samuel pronounced an ir tion Jdohn Putland was flag hearer Serene Williams unvellsd the and Rear | Porter and Mrs Miss 1ablet. Mprs. Steelman Flected. The Association of te Presidents of the society, which met last nizht, elacied Mrs. Mathias Steelman of Fli aheth, N. 1. president hy a unanimous | vote. Other officers elected were Mrs. Charles Rice o7 Atlanta. first vice president; Mrs. Frank D. Callon of Tlion, N. Y.. second vice president Mrs. Reuben R. Hollowar of Ralti more. third vice president. and Mrs Fdmund P. Moody of Wilmineton. Del.. secretary. Mrs. Samue! Wil-! liams Earle. the retiring president, | was made honorary president and Mrs. | Henry James Carr. past president and an nrzanizer of the society, was elect- »d founder. Yesterday felegates Mrs. Charles nllgrimage to Annapolis. were received by Gov. Statehouse and hy Rear Admiral L M. Nulton, commandant of the Naval Academy. A visit also was< mads to Fort McHenry. in Baltimors While an extensive program of re ports and resolutions is arranged. the Daughters of 1812 will devote con- iderable time to elahorate and in aplrational ceremonies of a patriotic | and sacred nature. Tonizht will he | taken up entirely with colorful cere monies, musieal and declamatory. in which national efficers of the society. representatives of the Navy. Marines and Army corps and ecivie officials will participate. Formal Meeting Tonight. Mrs. Davis formally will eall the eouncil to order this evening. when the national officers and charter members. escorted by costumed nages. will parade the baliroam o7 the Willard in preparation for pre tion of colors, which will be vy . Gen. Eli A. Helmick. inspector sgen eral of the Army: A color guard of haval and marine officers will assist and two ecavalry buglers will sound off. Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur will speak on “Old Iron- wid the frigate Constitution. fa- mous for its many victories against naval foes of the Unites States and which i to be reconditioned by a fund being raised by patriotic associ- | atinne. A model of the Canstitution | will be on display at the Willard dur- the convention. “American’s Creed” Listed. - William Tyler Page will lead the andience in reciting his “American’s | Creed.” Following an address hy| Mrs. Clarence J. Chandler of Mich- | igan. third vice president, a group of songs in costume will he ziven hy Mre. Frank Thaver Whited of Arkgn- sas. Al Real Daughters will unfurl the Real Daughters' flag. assisted by Mrs. Francls St. Clair, president ot the society of the District of Co- lumbia. The Welnnman flag will he presented hy Mrs. Frederick W. Mai- | teson. national registrar. and ad- | Aresses will he made by Mrs. Davis and Gen. Helmick. A musical pro- gram will be rendered hv the Tinited States Marine Band. tomorrow morning the eouncil will hear reports by charier trustees and national officers. Officers of Organization. The officers are: Mrs. Charles Rurt Tozier, Ohio. chairman charter trustees: Mrs. Robert C. Maxwell, New Jersev, firat vice president: Mrs. Alvin Valentine Lane, Texas. second vice president: Mrs. Clarence J. Chandler, Michigan, third vice pres- ident: Mrs. Samuel Shope. Penn- vania, fourth vice president: Mrs. derick W. Millspaugh. Tennessee, | recording seeretary: Mrs. Martha L. Sigmon, Arkansas, corresponding | ecretary: Mrs. Robert .J. Johnston, Inwa, treasurer; Mrs. John A. Lusk, Alabama, auditor; Mrs. Frederick W. Matteson, Pennsylvania, registrar Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway. Mary- land, historian: Mrs. Julius F. Cassell, Virginia, curator: Mrs. Her- hert E. Bartlett, California. Iibrarian: Mre. Clarence . Woodward. Arkan- mas, chairman of supplies: Mre. Samuel Preston Davis, Arkansas, president. 5 Further Ceremonials. Further patriotic ceremonials will he | held tomorrow afternoon and in the evening a reception and banquet will | be held with the folowing honor guests: Maj. Gen. John Lejeune. com mandant Uni ates Marine Corps. | and Mrs. Lejeune: John Alexander Parsons, fi ice president Louisiana Historical Society, and Mrs. Pyrsons: | Senator Caraway of Arkansas and | Mrs. ¢ away, W. O, Hart, treasurer | T.onisiana Historical Society. Lieut. Col. Thomas J. Dickson wiil address the gathering. Flection of a new first vice presi.| dent. third vice president. recording | secretary, treasurer. historian and, honorary national vice presidents for | Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, | Ohlo, South Carolina and Pensylva-| nia, will be held Wednesday morning | and in the afternoon Mrs. Mary Logan | Tucker and others will speak. The national executive board will meet Wedn(sday evening. group of the leadership of Fisher Taylor. made a chere thev hie in the morning inder the a Covered Wagon Club to Hunt Bears, SCRAMENTO. Calif., April 2 Covered wagon cluh membhers are training for the annual hear hunt in who {1he | the Associated Pre: { Hochi, | ated Lof i from 49 colleges in the United States Heads 1812 Society | i SAMUEL PRESTON DAVIS, President of the National Society of the United States Daughters of 1812, who will preside over its sessions here his week, BURGLARS ROB MAN TWICE SAME NIGHT Finding Home Ransacked, G. E. Hunt Makes Same Discovery at Store. Rurglars, veggmep and hold-up men ave a varied m"‘pminn 1o crime #ctivities here over the week end. George F. Hunt. 1421 Twenty-sev enth streel. was victimized twice by hurglars. Awakening yesterday morn & to find his home had been r: sacked during the night by an in iruder. whe took a suit of clothes, watch and chain, ring and $15 in cash. Hunt then weni to his place of busi ness, at Twentyseventh and O streets, and found that a burglar also had heen bhusy there durinz the night. His loe at the store was $5 from the cagh register and numerous ar of three diamond rings, valued t 5. from room 301 Metropolitan Natlonal Bank Building, was reported » the police by Mrs. HEugene S. Lesgett, 2304 Fourteenth street. She said the rings were stolen between & o'clock Saturday night and noon visited the of the Washington-Flint Motor Co., Seventeenth and V' streets, late Sat- urday night or early vesterday morn- ing. broke open the safe and took papers and more than $30 in cash. An intruder was frightened from residence of Dr. Melville R. Fischer. 1 Lanier stree, th morning abeut 4 o'clock. when Mrs. Fischer was awakened hy noises on the firgt floor. -Examination of the premises disclosed nothing taken, but the telephone had been cut and plugs removed from the electric switch hex, office visited the residence of Rock Creek Church 5 and 10:30 o'clock ole $275 from a and $100 worth of arglars ris e voad. between last night and dresser drawer jewelry. Four colored men attacked John Matthews, colored, 4524 lowa avenue, about 7:30 oelock last night. near his home and took $71 from his pock- ets. The robbers interrupted a. con- versation Matthews was having with a colored g1l named Mary Lewis. JAPAN FORMS OWN ASSOCIATED PRESS New Non-Profit Mutual Agency With 75 Members Replaces 0ld Organization. Rr the Associated Press TOKI0, April 26.—Dissolution of Ko- Kkusai, Japan's national news agency. and the formation of a new non-profit mutual news association similar to j announced today following a meeting of repre- sentatives of the empire's largest ver- nacular newspapers. The Japanese name of the associa- tion is the Nippon Shimbun Rengo, which, translated into English, is “the Associated Press of Japan." Bight newspapers, having 75 per cent of the total newspaper circulation of Japan, compose the charter membership. They are the Asahi, Nichi-Nichi, Jiji, Kokumin and Chugai Shogyo of Tokio and the Asahi and Mainichi of Osaka. Yukichi 1wanaga, whe has been managzing director of Kokusai, was elected to a similar position in the new organization. Regarding the plans of the association, Director Iwanaga said: We wish to follow, S0 far as pos- sible, the general idea of the Associ- Press of America. which un- doubtedly is the greatest news or- ganization in the world today. Owing to the peeuliar conditions in Japan, however, we cannot hope for attain- ment of this ideal for some time to come. “The newspapers of Japan want their news unbiased and uncolored, and it is believed that only through a mutual non-profit arrangement can such news he exchanged. It will also mean, -eventually, a tremendous sav- ing of money in news'gathering. INTERNATIONAL PEACE SUBJECT OF RESEARCH | Teachers From U. S. Colleges Going to Europe as Guests of Car- negie Endowment. Fe the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 26. Teachers international law and relations 11 visit Europe this Summer as the guests arnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dr. Nicholas Mu Butler, president of the en dowment and of Columbia University, announced. The teachers. representing 27 States, will make “a clinical study of inter- national organization and interna- tional association,” Mr. Butler said. A visit to The Hague will 'be fol- lowed by 2 trip to Geneva, where the party will study the organization of the secretariat of the League of N tions and the international labor of- fice. All will remain in Geneva for the annual meeting of the league in September. “The purpose of the trip.” Mr. Rut- s to give to this group of a more intimate and personal dze of what is being accom- piished in the field of international as which bows, arrows and tomahawks and bowie knives will supplant rifies for the first time. The nimrods Hope { <ociation. and to bring sthem into per- sonal eontact with as many as possible of the leaders In the public life of THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. ¢, MONDAY. APRIL 2. 1926. 1. TRADE ABROAD SHOWS HUGE GAINS International Transactions | Increased Nearly $5,000,- 000,000 Above Pre-war. . Increase in total international trans. actions between the United States and foreign countries from $6.000,000.000 in 1924 to neariy $6:800.000,000 last year was declared by Secretary Hoover last night to show ‘“very strikingly the enormously increasing importance of our foreign commer- clal and finaneial relations.” * The figure was a gain of approximately $1,100,000,000 over the 1923 total and nearly $5,000,000.000 more than the annual, pre-war average. ‘The sum- mary is contained in the fourth an- nual international trade halance state. ment made public by the Commerce Department. “Increasing eco forelgn countries.’ “was reflected by fully one-fourth of the estimated amount of American currency held abroad and by the fact that the move- ment of foreigners’ hank deposits in this country declined for the frst time since 1 N mic stability in the Secretary sald, a net import of Strengthens Investment Position. “During the year the United States further strengthened its international investment position. Our total foreign holdings now amount to about $10,400, 000,000, having increased by more than $1.200.000.000 durinz the vear. Our (otal returns from foreign invest ments are now greater than at any time in our history.” ; In the ahsence of complete and accurate figures which, It was said would show total exports and imports. hoth visible and invisible, to be equal, the statement. allowing for “errors { and _omissions,” estimated | vesidual balance last year at $64. | 100,000 azainst the United States. The lance in 1924 was $74.000,000 this country’s favor, In veaching the residual in 1 balance, ! favorable merchandise halance of $6K1.000.000 10 $666,000.000 by allow inz £40.000,000. the same as in 1924! to be placed on the import side of the ledger. for smuggled goods. in cluding liquor. and $25,000.000, a 1 duction of $5.000,000 from 1924, on the export side for unrecorded parcel post packages. The allowance for smug. goods in 1923 was £30,000.000 and $20,000.000. Favorable Balance Increased. ‘The combined favorable balance on all visible items. including the parcel post and smuggled zoods factors, was increased 1o $534.000,000 by adding §168,000,000, which represented the first net export in gold and silver since 1919, These exports last year were $361.000.000. while imports reached $193.000.000. “This balance was sliced almost in half by an adverse net of $343.000.- 000 in invisible trade. Argounts pald out in foreign countries by American tourists. immigrant remittances, pay- ments for foreign shipping and other services totaled $1,273.000.000, while only $930.000.000 came in as interest on foreign government and individual loans, dividends on. foreign invest ments, pavments for use of American ships. expenditures by foreign tour iste here and rovalties on American motion picture films. The $491,000,000 balance thus reach ed was completely wiped out by the excess of $434.000.000 which Amer. icans invested abroad over foreign in vestments in this country. The de tailed financial transfers included pur chases in this country of $411.000.000 in securi payments by foreigns of $140.000,000 on maturing bonds, and a discha of .000,000 from the principals of debts owed the United Stat This total of $578.000,000 was pitted against an outlay of $90.000.000, rep- resenting purchases of outstanding se- curities from foreigners; $974,000.000 publicly subscribed for new foreign securities in this country, of which £920,000.000 was received by foreign horrowers after deducting $54,000.000 in commissions. and a net amount of $62.000,000 in Tinited States currency reimported. Net Adverse Ralance. This gave a net adverse balance of $3.000,000, provided all international transactions were settled without re- sort to deferred payments and inter- natlonal bank accounts did not change. A decrease of $61,000,000 in for signers’ bank deposits reported by 186 ‘banks in thie country enlarged the unassighed difference in the totals to $64.000.000. . 4 Mr. Hoover called attention that in calculations of this kind. depending so largely on estimates, there “is always the possibility of errord although there is a tendency for some of these errors to neutralize each other.” Although the excess of exports in merchandise dropped $304,000.000 trom the 1924 figure and a marked increase of $125,000.000 in imports of new foreign securities was shown over that year, these were bhalanced by equivalent credit changes, such as replacement of the $258,000,000 gold- import excess of 1924, by the $134. 600,000 gold-export surplus last year, a total net credit of $392,000,000. There also was a $95.000.000 increasq in forelgn honds paid off, $116.000. 000 in net exports of ontstanding se curities and $50.000.000 in net interesy and dividends from foreizn inves ments. GOM Movements Cited. While gold movements revealed an export excess for the year, there was no certainty, it was said, that such would be the case in 1926, since there was a gold-iimport surplus of $16 000,000 during the last half of 1925. Invisible imports constituted 34 per cent of total imports last year, while this type of exports made up 22 per cent of the total exports. These | were the same ratios in 1924, and I since they assumed such an impor- tance in the whole picture, it was gratifying. Mr. Hoover asserted, to ohserve that statisticlans of many other countries are now beginning to publish studies of the same sort. F. C. BAIRD NAMED DRY CHIEF OF TWO DIVISIONS Administrator at Pittsburgh Also Placed in Control of Phila- delphia Area. ¥, (. Baird. prohibition adminis- trator at Pittsburgh, was placed in charge of both the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia divisions today by As sistant Secretary Andrews, in charge of enforcement. Baird was named last week to succeed W. G. Murdock, adminis- trator at Philadelphia, but after a conference with Mr. Andrews today it was decided he should remain at Pittsburgh, with supervisory control of the Philadelphia area also. Baird left today for Philadelphia. where he will reorganize that office hefore returning to Pjttsburgh. Am- brose Hunsberger will continue as acting administrator in Philadelphia pending reorganization of that district | by Baird. ‘The Philadelphia_district includes eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. . Ralishury, Rhbodesia. 1n to have an talephane-axchange. the final | department experts first reduced the | 'PLANTS THRIVE INDEFINITELY' An array of vegetabla Robhinson Crusoes, small living plants, each cut completely off from the outside world by heing hermetically sealed in an old electric light bulb, is now on display here at the building of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council. Though they have been shut up in thelr glass prisons for several months, receiving nothing from out- | slde except sunlight and warmth, {supplies of water and alr over and over agaln. The system of growing planis in sealed bulbs was Invented by Ray- mond H. Wallace. a voung graduate at Columbia University. signed as a demonstration of the ability of green plants to live com- pletely independently, an ability not shared by animals. The plants, which include xever: terns and fern allles, a small sensi- tive plant, and a seedling evergreen are so mounted in the spoonful of soll that is allowed them that they recelve a_constant hut not excessive supply of water from heneath. water evaporates from their leaves, it is condensed on the walls of the glass bulb and runs down, to he uxed over again. SPANISH PREMIER Declares “Death to Parlia- mentarism” and Favors Popular Referendum. Ry the Assnciated Press. ALCALA. DE HENARES. Spain, April 26, Death to parllamentarism and in its stead the popular referen dum. has heen decreed here hy Gen Primn de Rivera. the premier. in a speech delivered at a hanquet nf the Patriotie Union The premier once more uttered a stern warning 1o those who by word of mouth or anonymeus leaflets at tack® hix government. He assailed who would find fault with the rnment. The politiclans of the vestervear had no right 1o criticiz for judgment of the needs of the country wagr the prerogative of the government and not of the politicians Will Not Convoké Parllament. “I do not think that I shall convoke Parliament or call for elections,” the premier declared. “for the govern ment needs to listen only to the opin ion of the council of state and the ronomic council. If the has a complaint we will hear ft and i the issne {g 100 serious for us 1o de cide, we will submit it to a national veferendum and thns give the people an opportunity tn express their epin fon Ger. Primor de Rivera approved of the municipal and provincial reforms made by his government. ation wonld be so arranged that evers person should pay according to earn ings. The dictatorship would he con tinued until he had realized what was set ot to be accomplished oap Box Orators, Warns He warned and “soap hox orators,” their agitation, which was doomed to failure more because of lack of popit lar support than 1o the government's firm intention to suppress it. fled the ecountry becanse of blunders would not return. rors would be permitted to come hack into this countr: MIXED CLAIMS RECORD REVEALED AT HEARING American Members of Commissiop Explain Awards Made Which Have Incurred Criticism. | American memhers of the Mixed Claims Commission appeared hefore the House wa and means commit- tee today to testify on the awards made by the commission which have heen under fire from Democratie members, panticularly Representa- tive Garner of Texas. Robert W. Bonynge of the commis- sion presented the history of the commission’s work facing a staccato fire of questions from Mr. Garner and Representative Carew, Demo- erat, of New York. The United States would partici pate in “double theft.” Mr. Carew said, “if this country aceepfs as se- curity for claims property seized by Germany from its citizens.” Representative Oldfield of Arkan- sas, Democratic whip. charged Re- publican commiftee members with blocking attempts of Democrats to obtain frem the Treasury Depart- ment data to show war-time profits of ship insurance companies Replying to a charge of Mr. Carew that the commission accepted its agen Bonynge said only $134,000,000 awards had been made out of claims for $1.479,000,000. he added. amounted to $482,000,000. ADDS TO HIS LAURELS. Twenty-Year-Old Marathon Win- ner Also Pulpit Orator. BOSTON, April 26 UP.-.John C. Miles, 20-year-old winner of the Boston marathon, was on his way_to his home in Sydney Mines, N.'S., after gaining new laurels here as.a pulpit orator. He concluded his visit by de- livering twe sermons vesterday. There is no secret in this marathon game,” he told his congregations. “You must think clean, live clean, obey the laws of nature and of God. You may fool the people for a time if you don't follow these rules, but vou won't fool God. and if you don't live clean you will ultimately have to pay, both here in life and. hereafter.” “TURANDOT” WINS FAVOR. Premfere of Puccini’s Chinese Fairy Opera Presented in-Milan. MILAN, Ttaly, April 26 (#).—The premiere of ‘‘Turandot.”” Puccini’s Chinese fairy opera, was produced at the Scala Theater last evening. The audience, comprising numerous artists and music critics from Europe and America, gave hearty approval to the score and the scenic beauty of the settings. L “The opera was ivell sung under the baton of Arturo i they thrive and grow, using the same | student in the department of hotanv | 1t was de- | workman | He said tax- | | know “pseudo-intellectuals” | not to pursue | matter As | | veturning carhon dioxide, | stop growing when the small origi SEALED IN AIRTIGHT BULBS Complete Cycle of Carbon, Oxygefi and Water Sup- plies, Aided by Sun and Bacteria, Give Life. ‘The original supply of air impris- oned in the bulb is also used repeated- ly, in a slightly more complex cvcle. Plants make a double use of alir. They take in oxygen and give off car- hon dioxide, just as animals do, though it was formerly taught that they performed only the reverse proc- asx. Thev do perform a reverse proc ess, taking in carbon dioxide and giving off oxygen. That. however, is not a part of their breathing, but a part of the food-making process. wherein by the ald of sunlight they build the earben and part of the oxygen of the carbon dloxide into starch and sugar, releasing the re mainder of the oxvgen into the air. Recause plants play this double role, Mr. Wallace's green hermits can keep up the game of life indefiniteiy. Since they build the carbon dioxide into food, the plants would naturally al supply of this gas in the sealed-up air was exhausted. Here the green plants receive ald from a host of un seen fellow-prisoners In their bulbs the bacteria in the soil. These work only one way, eating up the decay ing plant material around them with the aid of oxygen from the air. and which the green plants capture again and ance | more feed into the unhroken circle of | “Glorioso!” They Exclaim,| | Here | | | its Southern sister. | are found evidences of good feliowship | vegelative life. LATIN JOURNALISTS WARNS AGTATORS THRILLED BY SNOW on New York State Tour in Big Busses. RY W JAM ULILMAN, ROCHESTER. N. V.. April 26 in the heart of the heantiful Genesee Valley, full of admiration and enthusiasm for the towns and country side through which they have passed and the great industrial they have meen. are encamped today the small army of journalist visitors States, Racing across tha Empire State in huge and powerful motor busses es- enterprises Latin American the United to corted by a detachment of State troops | and frequentiy traveling at a speed in excess of 50 miles an hour, the editor: from the southern continent are thrill- ing to the possibilities of modern trans. nortation as developed in this country through a combination of good rdads and motor cars. To many of them. however, the greatest thrill of their trip to the United States thus far came vesterday when their itinerary led them into some snow still clinging to the north arn hills, and later when a small flur ryv of snow hegan to descend ahout them. From scores of lips rame such exclamatione as “Glorioso!" “Quelin da’ and “Marvellosa!” and a halt was made that they amight get out and the feel of the white flakes as they fell on their upturned faces. First Snow for Many. 3 Several of those who were out of the tropics for the firat time scram hled up the hillsides to get their hands full of the snow. and” it was no easy to get them hack into the husses that the journey might he con- tinued A distinguishing feature of the tour has been the welcome which ®has He | i 4 I |zreeted the Latins at their arrival in hoped that the old politicians who had | fpevoniare an ronte. Leading citizens their |, the towns along the wav have exeried every effort to make the stay Only those who repented of their er- | o¢ the journalists asx auspleious as possible.” and to make it instructive ax well as entertaining. As a result, the visitors are hecom. ing imbued with the North Ameri can community spirit as well ax with its husiness and industrial They are heing received into the life of the centers through which they are passing. and are absorhinz the atmosphere of the region. Good Will Everywhere. The tour really is evolving into a sort of triumphal procesgion—-a husiness of North America greeting One every hand i and good will. These are not con- fined to cut and dried speeches and addresses of welcome. but obviously, are of much deeper significance. In turn. the Latins are expressing their .admiration and respect for the high 'state of industrial development witnessed along the way, and for the progressiveness manifested in all fields of commercial endeavor. Yesterday afternoon. they were the guests of the Chamber of Commerce in Syracuse. While:last night and this morning they enjoved the hos pitality of the Eastman Kodak Com pany in Rochester. Before taking to the highway for Buffalo at noon today they were shown moving pictures of themselves arriving in Rochester and at the East man plant. Bach guest also was sented with a Kodak as a memento of the occasion. Halstead to Be Examined. Col. Frank Halstead. Infant who has been under treatment at. Walter Reed General Hospital. has been or- stipulations of award, M. |dered before the Army retiring board in | in this eity for examination as to his physical fitness for further active Dismissed eclaims, | duty Produces in the mind of owner or player.a rfect mating of pride and pleasure. LESTER Small Grand Sy NNy phases. | MAY DAY HEALTH | PLANS ANNOUNCED Children to Be Examined, Girl Scouts Drill and Two Shows Planned. The Commissioners today issued a prociamation calling upon all health and educatifonal agencies in the Dis triet as well as the public 0 o ate in a movement fostered hv { emphasize the safeguarding of child life in health and needless accidents “The first day of May, 1926, has heen selacted as the date on which special ntion should he given this matfer,” declared the proclamation. “and the Commissioners nrge that ali citizens of the District of Columbia co operate with such celebration as may be had on that day.” ha chief of District health depart ment, Dr. William €. Fowler. an nounced he has made arrangements to co-operate with the local @mmit tee in charge of the May day celehra- tion, headed by Dr. I"..I. Danlels. \'a rious child hygiens centers of the de. partment and the child welfare sta tlon at Children’s Hospital will he open May 1, with doctors and nurses in altendance. Fxaminations will he given to all children 12 vears of age and under, Schools Asked to Ald. The Distriet Medical Society also has planned to advize parents to have their children examined on this dav, and Dr. Fowler writted to Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballon urging that public school children take part in the celebration A Merchants of the eity thréugh the Merchants and Manufactirers' Asso- in the movement. Charles .J requested fhem to arrange special window displa or place Child Health week slogans in eonspictons places in their stores. Pictures fo he Shown. The committee also has arranged fo give two moving picture shows on May day, one at the Tivoll Theater and another at the Lincoln Theater at 10 a.m. Tha filme have heen pre- pared by the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor. “Cho-Cho.” the | tamous “health clown.” will appear at fhese theaters during the shows celehration will he special exercises in the Central High School Stadium from 3 to 5 p.m. The program in cludes a _concert by the Tnited States ! Marine Band. May pole dances by 12 physically perfect girls selected by the municipal playground department. a Arill by 300 Girl Sconts. a health parade led by children in costume, a health eir rhythmic dances by girls of the*Marjorie Webster Schoal »f health songs hy a “hoal children {and the singin gronp of 300 s 1926 BUDGET BILL APPROVED IN PARIS il’eret Promi;es fi:u:l 1‘hmedies for Financial Problems During Coming Recess. Rr the Asomated Pre PARIS. April 2 | | | | | | .—In a late Sun 1926 27 votes will go adopted the budget. to 153 The measure now hefore the Senate for action on the minor modifications made by the chamber, and it is hoped that the bill will he finally enacted in the early days of next week. e question of Fran dehts to | Great Britain and the United States | | came to the fore in the closing min- | ntes of the discussion. when M. Peret the finance minister, pleading for the | chamber’s co.operation, said he was | engaged under the most difficult con- ditions wit hthe interallied debt nego- | tiations and promised that the gov ernment wonld “defend up to the last {the rights and interests of France.” i With the hudzet and debi settle ment out of the way he would devote the forthcoming parliamentary racess It preparation of measures that would | provide for final rehabilitations of the | country s finances and amortization of ihe floating debt. False sideburns worn by women of | | | match their hair. oper- | Vhol American Child Health Association fo | ciation have pledged their eo-nperation | Colum- | hus, secretary of the organization, has (came hysterical and. when the police | One of the principal events of the | day session the Chamber of Deputies | Slim Person Best Faster, Scientist In Germany Says By the Associated Press RERLIN, April 26.— Fat men and women don't stand a chance with the slim when it comes to hunger strikes, said Dr. Kurt Ullman. di vector of the Charity Hospital clinic in Berlin. Dr. Ullman has ohserved several of the fasters including Herr been here. Deprived of all food except min eral water, Dr. Ullman says, the body firet draws on fat reserves and then consumes staved-upy pro teine. In consuming fats, an in jurlous acetone fs set free a& in dlabetes, he said, and a corpnlent person would he forced to quit in at least % days hecause of his overabundance of fat A =lender person nses up surplis fats he. fore harmful effects set in and starts on proteins | THIEF-ESSAYIST - TAKEN IN CHICAGO | | |Wrote “Criminal Must Be Cool,” But Became Hysteri- cal When Caught in House. | Ry the A | CHICAGO. April The up tadate | robber remains =elf-possessed when captured and conlly talks his wav to freedom. Vincent De Pascal wrote in n article found in his pocket, but when he was caught robhing the home of an Evanston broker De Pascal he weiated Pro |arrived, broke down and soWbed. | De Is |an essay won for him first priz |a contest, was captured last night in {the home of George B. Williams. who found him hiding in a bathroom In De Pascal's hotel room police found $20.000 in honds which the prisoner admitted were stolen in one of sexeral Evanston robberies. De Pascal'’s prize-winning essav tained a shortening of his for burglary at Elmira. Many manuseripts were among De Pascal's effects, a large quantity of jewelry from {which the stones had been removed. | De Pascal's young wife. whom he |married in St. Louis. is in a Chica | hospital. suffering from appendiciis | He said he was trying to rob the Williams home to obtain money to de fray her hospital expenses. In the article on crime. called Thugs of Yesterday and Today.” De | Pascal wrote that old methods of rob. bery now were out-ofdate. Instead of the bindgeon and cap and mask. Pascal. who gained some pub. oh found | he related that the modern robber fis | . “a suave, well dressed. level-headed T i | | licity vear age while in the Elmira | tion tate Reformatory in New York when | more in | they sentence | and also | | | man. whe never loses his self-posses. | | sion irrespective of what close quarters | he may find himself in." . {INQUIRY IS ORDERED IN YOUTH’S SHOOTING Other Says Gun Was Accidentally Fired When He Thought He Saw Negro at Window. By the Assnciated Press. ! BRIDGETON. N. I.. April 2. | lice have begun an investigation into | the death of Lanning Coles. 18-vear.old high school student, in jail without bail. No rharge has been entered against Han hy. Coles was a member of an aute- and by and her haby from Bridgeton fo their farm home at Backneck ear|y vesterday. Hanby was in hed when the party | arrived. Mrs. Hanhy {no key and had tried to raise | window of his hedroom on the ground floor, to awaken her hushand. A shot rang out and voung Coled fell mortally wounded. The authorities declared they were not entirely satisfied that the shot was fired accidentally. although Han- by explained that his shotgun was dis charged when he. stumbled over a | ehair after he thought he had seen a egro’'s face at the bedroom window. mobile party which included his uncle | unt, which had taken Mrs. Han.| said she had | the | | | have heen comi X et . - FARM RELIEF HELD PARTISAN FAGTOR Democratic Committee Ac- cuses Republicans of Bolster- aolly, who have | ing Presidential Ambitions. The Democratic in a statement iscued ves ited 4 numher of well known Republi ne with havinz presidential rions ted that farm legislation made a factor in developing political ambitions Describinz recent developments agriculture legislation as “‘gestures.” the committee. in a statement, said that analvsis of the “rival ambitions for the 1925 nomination is ntial to understand what has been transpirin: in the name of farm velief Startin with “the occupant of the White e the statement sinzled mt Viee President Dawes, former € Frank 0. Lowden of Hlinofs. Senator Borah of [daho. Speaker Lonzworth Senator \Watson of Indiana and Secre rv Hoover now delvinz into the farmers’ problem in its relation to the next presidential campaign. and is heing i President Slow in Movinz. “The oecupant of the White House it asserted. “has been szlow to move in the matter, but political exigencies seem to he forcing the conclusion tha something must he done at the pres ent session. Indications of a chanze dually.” Gov. Lowden has heen making speeche< advisinz tarmers of their unequal economic position.” and “it is evident that if Lowden is ambitious it is for the presidency.’ Referrinz to the re cent defeat of Senator McKinley in Tllinois. the committee observed that the farmers of that State “no doubt had both Mr. Lowden and the indif. ference of the national administra- of farm relief in mind, much than the World Court, when went to the polls Vice President Dawes was pictured Plavin quietly his own velief zame for months, He Sir Josiah Stamp. an economist eat Britain. and conceived the of bringing our leading agricul tural minds in contact with Sir Josiah. Meanwhile he has heen talk ing ahout Senate rules and listeni in on the White House spokesman Senator Borah ‘as represented as countinz en opposition to the World Court. foreign entanglements and thinzs of that sort as the chief step ing-stones to his ambitions. but will talk a bit for the farmer meanwhile.” The statement classed Speaker Lonzworth as “regular.” and ‘‘ready’ to perform™ if the President wishes the “rulinz coterie of the House tn enact some sort of farm relief bill.” The Speaker. it continued. “has not vet offered a rural remedy. but he will have one vet Senator Waison was described as heautiful things to Hoosier in hope of holdinz the sen atorship far a 1928 presidential lever age.” while Herbert Hoover ‘has <ome ideas ahout farm relief and the presidency. The zeneral opinion if Coolidge can't zet it he will he for Hoover.” TWO LIMITEDS CRASH. Fireman Dead. Engineer Badlr Hurt. in Alabama Wreck. JASPER. Ala.. April 26 (#).—One trainman was killed. another was seri Former the state ment zaid, « rather farm met of ide: —Po- {ously injured and several other train men and passengers were hurt in a head-on collision of the northbound and southbound Seminole Limited while William | trains of the Tllinois Central Railroad. | Hanby. his confessed slayer. remained | at Gamble. Ala., late vesterda formal | Both engines left the r turned over. killing George Young fireman of the southhound train, and probably fatally injuring J. Boone. fts engineer, GIRL GIVES .LIFE IN VAIN. Four-Year-Old Dies in Fire Trying to Save Baby Brother. TRVILLE. Ky., April 26 (# to save her 4-month.old brother Jennie Smith. 4 years old. was trapped in a fire that destroved the home of her father. John Smith, near here vesterday. Both children were burned to death. Neighbors found the charred bodies in the ruins. the girl's body covering that of her brother. Tune in ‘“The Grand Prize ev Tuesday, 8 P. 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