Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1926, Page 17

WHEN THE DIR the Amundsen-Ellsworth ship left RTED FOR TH Kings Bay for the unknown ole, landed at Teller, Alaska. FAREWELL TO COMDR. BYRD AND PILOT | Bay. Spitzbergen, center of the group. few minutes before the giant Fokl NNE INDIANA SENATORS COURTVOTES 0.K'D State G. 0. P. Leaders Ap. prove Opposition Action of Robinson and Watson. By the Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS, May 27.—The plat form committee of the Republican Ktate convention last night approved | 8 plank indorsing the votes of Sena-| tors James E. Watson and Arthur R.| TRobinson against American adher- ence to the World Court protocol. Reversing its action taken earlier in the day, the committee by a 12-to-1 vote withdrew from its position of de- nying indorsement to the two Indiana | Senators in their departure from ad- | ministration polley. It is understood that persnnal backers of the Senators | convinced the committee leaders that any actlon other than outright in. Aorsement would be overruled on the finor of the convention today. In an attempt to reconcile the at- titude of the Hoosler Senators with | that of President Coolidge on the World Court question the committee at a preliminary session had decided tn sommand the records of the Sena tors without making specific refer- ence to the court. When this decision became known: friends of Watson and Robinson con- ferred with party leaders. Senator Robinson appeared before the commit- tee and requested unqualified indorse- | ment regarding his opposition to the World Court. It was understood that Renator Watson transmitted a similar request. | U. . LEPER SETTLEMENT | IS HELD WORLD'S BEST Scotsman Declares Culion's Record of Discharging 1,000 as Cured Is Proof of Point. By the Associated Press. BELFAST, May 27.—The American Government's colony at Culion, P. I., 1= the world’s finest leper settlement, in the opinion of Dr. Robert Cochrane of Glasgow, who has been on a tour of investigation in the east on behalf of the lepers’ mission. ““The efficacy of the treatment,” he says, “i4s shown by the fact that dur- ing the past few years 1.000 male and female lepers have been dis- charged from the institution as cured.” Dr. Cochrane’s world fight against leprosy has been concentrated on establishing hospitals for the treat.| ment of the first stages. He said this was being done with great success in India by Dr. Isabel Kerr of Aberdeen, who was using the Chaulmoogia oil methods, Injunction Hearing Delayed. Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va.. May 27.—Hea ing on the temporary injunction grant- ed W. L. Bragg against C. J. Ives by Judge Samuel G. Brent, May 21, hold- ing up the building of an undertaker's establishment at the rear of his prop- erty on Wilson Boulevard, scheduled for today, has been postponed until Monday. The hearinii will he held be- fore Judge Brent in Circuit Court at Alexandria. Stage Make-up May End. NEW YORK, May 27 (#).—Make- up will be used mostly hy theater- goers If a new stage lizhting device lives 1p to expectations. A flesh zelatine slide of 4 lavender tint m: " Jittle o1 nn use of cosmeties by the | point Tl LEGRAALYs SADAURLS nvolveds HONORING DISTRICT BOYS WHO MADE THE SUPRE NORTH POLE. Northland FORE HOP-OFF TO THE NORTH POLE. ¢ started on its successful trip to the Pole. THE EVE Photograph snapped just before The dirigible, after the trip Copyricht by Pathe, from Wide World. G _STAR, WASHINGTON, i > Kings Ba, returning to Kings Bay. ROUTE TO THE NORTH POL| for the northern flight. passed over the North Pole and dropped the United States flag bafore D. ¢, THURSDAY, K. The Byrd plane, just after it left Comdr. Byrd and Pilot Bennett Copyrizht by Pathe News, from Wide World MAY 27, 1926. Al the start of the flight. + READY FOR THEIR HOP-OFF TO THE NORTH POLE. dressed for their airplane flight to the Pole. Comd r. Byrd and Pilot Floyd Bennett The picture was taken at Kings Bay, Spitzhergen, just before Copyright by Pathe News, from Wide World This photograph was faken at Kings r('nmlln Byrd and Pilot Bennett in apy ght by Pathe News from Wiie World ME SACRIFICE {ICAN RED CROSS Washington, the delegates were received by LEADERS GREET! RE th Dl e Pre E YESTERDA ige on the White Attending the second Pan- House lawn yesterda, Copyricht hy P. & A. Photos. Members of Vincent Costello Post, Gold Star Mothers and District of Columbia officials erected a cross in front of the District Building yesterday In'honor of the local heroes who died during the World War. Commissioner Rudolph at extreme left when this photograph was taken. TECHNICAL STUDY OF FRANG PLANNED Peret Announces Group of Experts Will Make First Step Toward Stabilization. By the Associated Press. PARS, May 27.—The appointment of a technical financial advisory committee to study the monetary sit uation in France is the first step to- ward stabilization of the fran®, Minister of Finance Peret said last evening. “The budget is balanced and measures are in preparation for a full and complete renovation of French finances,” he said. The time accordingly has come for the study of stabilization. “We have decided that this must be done in- dependently of all political - consider- ation and outside of the routine.of government administration. Hence there will not be a politician or a government functionary on the com- mittee. Eminent specialists, most of whom are yet to be chosen, will examine the situation from a purely technical of view and will recommend measures to prepare for stabilization.” M. Peret's plans, which he ex- plained in person to a group of Ameri- can bankers yesterday, have made an excellent impression. The opinion was expressed that the French gov- ernment finally has struck a trail that is likely to lead to real financial restoration and monetary stabiliza tion. The finance ministry also announced vesterday that measures will be taken against French exporters who leave the proceeds of their sales abroad be- vond the legal time limit of three months. The ministry warned that ‘oceeds were not hrought back nce. the fll penalties, which monnt to confiscation of the { may BANKERS’ CONFERENCE SIGNIFICANCE IS DENIED | Meeting of U. S., British and Ger- | man Financers Is Held One | of Regular Series. By the Associated Press | BERLIN, Ma —The discussions | which Hjalmar Schacht, president of | the Reichs Bank, will have in London |this week with Montague Norman. governor of the Bank of England, and Benjamin Strong. jr.. governor of the Kederal Reserve Bank, New York, are declared in official circles here to be |one of the periodical conferences he- | tween representatives of the world's |leading banks, with no special politi- |cal significance, and that there is no foundation for reports that Germany intends to suggest immediate revision of the Dawes reparation plan. It is added that although German politicians and financiers are con- vinced it* will be found the Dawes plan cannot be carried out in its pres- ent form, the German government will not plead for its revision, but will leave it to the other side to recognize |the advisability of revising it. Lyon Village Firms Signing for Concessions Next Week. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYON VILLAGE, Va., May 27.— Signing of exhibitors for the big car- nival next week has begun, tHe Ross- lyn Gas Co. being first on the list. ‘Work will be started Saturday on the pavilion and stands for the games and refreshments and other concessions. Jesse N. Rice, chairman of the car- nival committee, is signing the ex- hibits, Hundreds of posters advertising the carnival have been printed and will be placarded throughout the county this afternoon by members of the as- sociation. Arrangements also have been made to place the posters in the motor busses operating in the county and in prominent business establish- ments in Washington, . Monte Criste, Santo Domingo. has | inst opened ts first publie Irrization | cagal, : | i Washington Star Photo. ON AMi was taken at Woking, Surrey, Walker cup and the amateur chai Jess Guilford H and G. Wat RICA Bobby WALKER CUP TEAM. mpio! lon hip. Back row, left to righ { This_photograph of the Ameri If ngiand, hefore the team left for Muitfiold, (o for the otland, to compete for the Robert Gardner, George von El s, Roland MacKenzie of Washington, Jesse Sweetzer, Francis flr?lll:l.r: Photo by Acme. . Conn,, May question of whetner or not it is possi | ble for a unicellular organism to re- produce indefinitely without recourse to fertilization has heen answ an experiment covering 19 versity. The report by Lorande Lo Woodruff will appear in a coming f sue of the Quarterly Review of Bi- ology, says a Science Service bulletin. On ‘May 1, 1907, a pedigree culture of the unicellular organism, para- mecium aurelia, was started in the laboratory with a single individual. Every day fresh food -has been fur- nished to the culture after the food has been boiled to prevent contami- nation with any foreign strains of paramecium. the zoological laboratory at Yale Uni- | Single-Celled' Organism Reproduced Self 11,400 Times in Nineteen Years Every day the products of division of the culture have heen isolated. The |animals of the culture today are di- | rect lineal descendants, without fer- | tilization, of the single animal isolated in 1907. It is estimated that about | #1,400 generations have been attained vears. The persistent vital- ¢ of the culture is further attested the fact that it shing animals for various other | studies on the same miscroscopic ani- | mals at Yale and elsewhere. | This study has indicated that under | favorable environmental conditions the protoplasm of the progenitor of the culture had the potential ability to produce similar cells, whose total body material would represent many hundreds of times the volume of the earth. STORM IN ARGENTINA TIES UP SHIP TRAFFIC Ambassador Pueyrredon Held Up at Montevideo for Twenty- Four Hours. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, May 27— Storms on the coast of Argentina have par- alyzed small craft shipping and have delayed the passage of large steam- ships in the Platte River region dur- ing the past 48 hours. Transatlantic liners are from 12 to 24 hours late. The nightly departure of steamers for Montevideo was canceled on Tues- day. The Western World from New ‘York, on which Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine Ambassador to the United States, took passage, was held up at Montevideo for 24 hours. - Held & Dead Tag Charge. Charged with having dead tags and failure to have his registration card, Harry L. Metcalf, 20 years old, 1328 Columbia road, was arrested by police of the sixth precinct yesterday after- noon after his car was alleged to have struck and i colored, 1125 5 near Seventh and G streets. Viola was treaied at Emecgency-Hospital- - } EXPULSION OF CARUANA DEFENDED BY MEXICAN Minister of Interior Protests Some U. S. Papers Show Ignorance of Real Facts in Case.’ By the Associated Tresr. z MEXICS CITY, May 27.—Minister of the Interior Tejeda in a statement | regardinz .th> recent order of expul- sion issued against Mgr. Caruana, the papal nuncio to Mexico, says the com- ment by some of the American new: papers on the situation indicates that they are ignorant of the facts of the case. Senor Tejeda said he had no desire to prolong the controversy and that his final reply to the supporters.of Mgr. Caruana was that a_month he- fore the prelate entered Mexico the Mexican government had ‘ssued im- migration rcgulations prohibiting -any foreign priest from entering the coun- try. Therefore, Mgr. Caruana’s en- trance was prima facie llegal. They Just Happen. From the Sarasota (Fla.) Times, Accidents will happen. Th why there are so many. .diff ‘kinds-of- salads. is continuously | GIRL, 13, IDENTIFIES MAN | HELD IN ASSAULT CASE | New Jersey Officials Plan to Move | Hermit From Freehold | Fearing Mob Violence. | | By the Associated Press. ! FREEHOLD, N. J. | “That's the man, that's the man, was the cry of 13-year.old Rose Tara- bash, victim of an assault last Thurs day, when Frank Lipschitz, 27, beard ed hermit, living in the woods near | Perrineville, was brought before her | for_identification. The girl had just heen released from a Trenton hospital where she was treated for head injuries inflicted by | her assailant. Lipschitz _displayed no emotion | whatever during the identification, al- though at intervals there were voices in the crowd demanding that he be killed. Fearing an attempt to break into the pail to get the man by the towns- people, whose suppressed anger threat- ened to take the form of violence, the authorities planned to remove Lip- schitz to some other place of confine. ment, which will be kept secret. - FOWLER HELD GUILTY. Former Dry Agent Convicted of Operating Maryland Still. Special Dispatch to The Star, BALTIMORE, May 27.—George Fowler, a former Washington prohibi- | tion agent, was found guilty by a jury yesterday in United States Court here of operating a still in St. Marys County. Fowler _charged that .Thomas ‘Wheeler, Baltimore dry sleuth, who resigned in January, tried to frame him. It was Agent Wheeler who was | supposed to have raided Fowler's al- leged still in 1923, ( TUnited States Commissioner Turn- age testified Wheeler would not say he saw either Fowler, his brother, | May 27| f | Russell Fowler, or Ralph Ruby, a| }friend of the brother the raided distillery when the three accised men were brought_into his court for ar raignment. Fowler were Ruby and the otherll!i:-m releaged. _ ! Besh. RUM RING REPORT DENIED BY STRONG Naval Air Officer Scoffs Idea Hawaiian Flight Plane Smuggled Liquor. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif.. May 27 phatic denial that he was in any way connected with an alleged rum-smug- gling ring at Seattle was made here vesterday by Lieut. Comdr. James H. rong, naval aviation officer. Lieut. Comdr. Strong is _reported to have been indicted by a Federal grand jury at Seattle for alleged violation of the prohibition laws. “All that I know of the action of the Seattle grand jury is from news- paper reports,” sald the officer. “This trouble came to me like a bolt from a clear sky.” Lieut. Comdr. Strong was stationed at Seattle while the PB-1 Hawaiian flight plane was heing built and tested for the flight. He termed ridiculous any reports that this plane could have heen used for smuggling. Finds Auto Tag Useless. NEW YORK. May 27 (P).—It is nossible to drive from Chicago to New York without number plates or a license. Arthur La Fleur, a vaude- ville actor, did it and was not arrested or even questioned till he got nine blocks from his home. Indian Famine Tolls Big. Between 1876 and 1900 the toll ‘of 18 famines in Indla was about 26.- 000,000 persons. As a_result human bones have been.carted .to .the ferdl- izer factories by the tons. Whole communities perished at thmes. In we periods of famine many head of were «hle had there not religious il among the preciuding their eating that. FIRST TRIAL BEGINS NOSAGE MURDERS | | Death of Three in Home Blast Called Part of Plot to Kill Rich Indians. | By the Accaciated Press PAWHUSKA, Okla.. May 27.—The first of a seri f trials resulting from what the State declares was a huge | conspiracy to kill wealthy Osage In- !dians for their property got under way here vesterday. Taking of testi- mony tarted in the trial of Ernest Burkhart, charged with the slaying of W. E. Smith. Two other men, W. K. Hale. known “king of the Osage Hills.” and re also charged with scheduled to go |on trial as soeh as the Burkhart case |is completed. Smith, his wife and a s ‘ d an explosioin | wrecked the Smith home in F: iin March, 1922 iwin Dahney rvant sirl that ax | assistant State at | torney zeneral. declared in his openins statement to the jury that the Stat would attempt to prove a conspi existed hetween the accused men tn kill Smith and his wife and get posses sion of their property. | He declared also that at the time of Smith's death Hale owed him $6.000. He said the State would show that | Hale had interviews with A. L. | Spencer, notorious outlaw, and Dick Greeg for the purpose of making | propositions to the two men to kill | Smith. | pencer was killed some time ago hy a Federal officer. | GOSPEL MISSION UNION " SELECTS INDIANAPOLIS Workers Accept Indiana Govern- or's Invitation to Maet in Capital in 1927. By the Associated Press BUFFALO, N. Y., May 27—Ac- cepting the invitation of Gov. Edward Jackson of Indiana. the Unlon of Gospel Mission Workers yesterday chose Indianapolis as the place of their 1927 convention. Rev. W, E. | Paul of Minneapolis was elected | president. A woman secretary. who sald she alrendy had four “man_sized” johe— the Rev. Clemme Ellis Whits of New York City—was elected. She iz head of a mission in the Hell's Kitchen | section of New York, manager of r | truit and produce farm, owner and | manager of a Summer boarding re- sort and an ordained minister. Many Churches for Negroes. Tn the United States there are 47,000 negro churches with about 5,000,000 members and 46.000 Sunday schools enrolling three million puplis; Members of these colored churches | contribute $550.000 to home and far: eign missions, and negroas have com: tributed ahout $350,000 toward the erection of colored Y. M. C. A. bulld: ings in 14 cities. There are 332,000 Methodist Episcopal negro church members - who in five years con: tributed $1,941,979 toward the centen- ary fund of that church. The Olivet Raptist Church in Chicago, said to bs the largest Protestant congregation in ihe' world, has 10,000 members. No Chance, Poor Man. From the Philadelphia Inquirer. | With. girls making 99 nut of a pos ves, putting the sha? tke 100-yard dash ig 11 ‘re won't be much chance for a man after a while eitned 110 Qs v suR. \ SO,