Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1926, Page 4

4 & PHILADELPHIA WIL TRY ‘BEAVERBROOK' 1924 Indictment Precludes| Extradition to Other Cities Which Want Him. Br the Assiciated Presa. PHILADELPUI May hough a score of cities scattered over the United States would like to try Herman Kreuger, self-styled “Lord Teaverbrook.” the suave defendant will first face a jury here under charges of grand larceny, it was ruled vesterday. Kreuger. said by detec {ives to have married many women and @efrauded them of hundreds of thousands of dollars, was arrested here Monday while enjoying one of his favorite Juxuries—Tonsorial attention. Judge Horace Stern, in Common Plaas Court. vester ordered him placed on trial next Tuesday. A move by Kreuger's counsel for a writ of haheas corpus to obtain hls release on | bhail while awaiting extradition to New York, where he is wanted on charges of swindling a woman out of $125,000. ; was hlocked by presentation of a bill of indictment returned here June 19, 1924. This bill named Kreuger under one of his many aliases. “Frederick B. Stanley,” and alleged that he defruud. ed Mrs. Frances Kemp out of $13,000. 1 Kreuger told police he recently had lost what money he had left to profes. sional gamblers. He sald he was “tat broke.” PROMISES T0 REFORM. Robbed Only Rich; Now on Rocks and ’ Going Straight, He Just call me 8id.” brook.” noted swindler under arre in Philadelphia, told Detective lIra Keck of this city when the latter ques- tioned him relative to his marriage to Mrs. Virginia Martin of the Ward- man Hotel, a vear ago in Rockville, Md.. after he had swindled her out of $40,000 in cash and a $5,000 dlamond ring. in connection with their matri monial affairs. “Forever hereafter,”” he added, just plain Sidney Rennee, my name."” Rennee told Detective Keck he has three daughters on the stage and that he is a graduate physician. He dis. cussed his swindles and matrimonial affairs freely, the detective asserted, frankly admitting having obtained large sums of money and jewebry. Often Gave to Poor. “Lord Beaver al “But person who was unable to stand it, and many times 1 gave money to the poor. “I'm on the rocks now.” <ie admit red nd am going to make the best of it. ‘'I'm through with this stuff and intend to live straight when this is all over.” Lord Beaverbrook,” man of scores of aliases, was arrested as a result of a clever plece of detective work per- formed by a son-nlaw of Mrs. Rose Burken of New York, who surrendered §125.000 worth of jewelry to him to have appraised preparatory to a Euro- pean trip. Much of this jewelry was surrendered to her by Mrs. Martin in this city, Mrs. Burken being loser by about $30.000. Many Victims Lenlent. Several alleged victims of the pris oner have come forth with requests for the withdrawal of thelir complaints, Detective Keck stated, but enough of them to hold him have signified an intention of pressing their charges in court. The prisoner, represented by counsel, hopes to remain in Philadel- phia and obtain his release on bond. New York City officials have the first call on him after the Philadelphia authorities have finished, it is stated, this city having the second. Detainers from both cities have been lodged with the Philadelphia authorities. ‘Fifteen or twenty years of this life is enough ' was “Beaverbrook's” concluding statement, “and I'm through with it for all time.” ANNUAL SPELLING BEE PLANNED AT GONZAGA 36 Entrants in. Parochial School Contest to Meet Tomor- row Night. The annual spelling bee open to the parochial schools of Washington and nearby points and sponsored by Gonzaga High School will take place tomorrow night in Gonzaga Theater. ‘The winner of the bee will be given a $10 gold plece. The other prizes will be: Second, $5 in_gold: third, $3; fourth, 82, and a 2-pound box :; choice bonbons to each of the next X, Rev. J. C. Davey, vice president of Gonzaga, will rveferee the contest. The words will be announced by Rev. Joseph A. Maloney of George- town University, and the judges will he Rev. Francis P. Delaney, Rev. John L. Gipprich and Rev. Joseph C. Glose, also of Georgetown University. Names of the 36 entrants iIn the contest, together with the schools they represent. follow: Lawrence Dorr. Charles Ring, Phyllis Maserick and Frances. Moloney, St. Aloysius; Fugene Petrenko and Dorothy Skirm, St. Ann’s; John Deeds and Mar garet Lusby, : Blessed ~ Sacrament; ¥rances Appich and Thomas O'Con- nor, St. Dominie’s; Robert Mawhin- ney and Clara Offenbacher, St. Ga- briel's; Madeline . Becker, Reland Miller, Kenneth Delavigne and Jere- miah O'Connor, Holy Trinity Thomas H; Gallagher.and Philp Hannan, Immaculate = Conception James Bergin and Fred Brew, seph’s; Helen Dean, Llizabeth Roger Cooper and William St. Martin’s; Ralph Freund and Anna Monica, St. Patrick’s; Gertrude Prowinsky and William Shea, i"aul’s; Charles Hayden and Wood, St. Joseph's Male Orphan Inm; Virginia McDonnell and Ells- worth Simpson, St. Charles (Claren- don. Va.). Lillian Hemsley nd Georgina Pauly, Villa Marie (West Falls Church, Va.), and Charlotte Gartner and Russell Glovd, St. Mar- tin’s (Gaithersburg, Md.). s MISS POSEY DELAYS LUNCHEON APPEARANCE Due to the sudden death of Franc E. Sheiry at a Kiwanis function last night, the weekly gathering held to- day on the roof of the Hotel Washing- ton was adjourned out of respect for his memory immediately after the luncheon, which canceled the appear- ance of Miss Myrtle Posey. Eastern High School senior and Washington finalist in the National Oratorical Con- test, as an honor guest, Numerous guests who attended the luncheon, many of them delegates to the Northern Baptist Convention, were urged by President Mark Lansburgh to return to another meeting when the regular Kiwanis routine is fol- lowed:- : . President Lansburgh appointed a resolutions committee to draft suitable sentiments _concerning Mr. Sheiry's death,” ds follows: ~W. Seton Kent, Jfohn Boobar, Rev. W. W. Shearer and !‘_rnk Howard. 2 * he said, "1 never robbed any | IREV. A. R. BARTHOLMEW {HEADS REFORMED CHURCH | By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, May 27.—The Rev. Dr. Allen R. Bartholmew, for a quarter of a century secretary of the | board of foreign missions, last night {was elected president of the General i Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States at the first session of the twenty-second triennial session. He was unopposed. Dr. Bartholmew, whose home is in Philadelphia, succeeds the Rev. J. Leonard of Lexington, N. C, ! “Mrs. B. B. Krammes. Clinton, Ohio, { mude the opening address at the first ! session of the conference of Women's Missionary Socfety of the General nod of the Reformed Church in the United States, which was also held last night. OCEAN LINER TRIP 15 LONG ADVENTURE C. Sea Include Details of Ship’s Schedule. Tucreased facilities for crossing the | Atlantic at reasonable cost, prosperity at home and cheap money abroad are combining to send probably a larger aumber of American tourists to Eu rope this Spring and Summer than {ever invaded the Old World in a like ! period. Many of these travelers, fa { millar enough with ‘their Pullmans and river steamers, will find condi- { tions on an ocean liney disconcerting- oSt A bulletin from the | Natio ographic Society intro. duces the “ocean tenderfoor” to this new environment in which he will e confined from 5 to 10 davs “Getting off Is an exciting matter.” says the bulietin, “"and the temptation is to spend the last hour or so near {the gangplanks. chaiting with vour {own friends and watching the milling throng of travelers and well-wishers in holiduy spirit. 1f vou are wise, however, vou will invest, say, 20 min- ! utes of this time for vour own future | comfort. T turn around the { promenade deck and select the neigh- { borhood in which you would like to {have your deck chair. You will find distinguishing numbers, not chairs, but where you wo expect them—on the ceiling above. Selecting a Steamer Chair. “You probably will want your chai on the starboard tor right) side going {to Europe and port tor left) side re- turning. for (hose are the sunny {sides. “Haviuz decided on the loca- tion vou desire and noticed the neigh- boring numbers, look up the deck steward and try to persuade him to allot you # chair somewhere in the neighborhood. This functionary has an office on the larger liners, usually a little room opening on to the prom- enade deck to the rear (or ‘aft’ as they say on shipboard. There will be a fee, of course, for the chair and a steamer rug. If you are traveling with friends vou will wish to make this a joint arrangement so as noj to be separated. Watch the bulletin bos These { are the town-criers and newspupers on shipboard. There are little dail papers, too, on the larger liners. Usually there will be a bulletin board in the main companionway at the promenade deck level, another outside the dining salon, and a third. perhaps, in the smoking room. All affairs of general interest that are to take place on the ship will be announced there and a brief digest of the world news from the radio room will appear each afternoon. Pilot Takes Mail Back. “Be sure to ask for your mail at the ship's post office as soon after you go aboard as it is open. There are certaln to be ‘steamer letters’ for vou, and some of these you may wish to answer by note to be taken back by the pilot an hour or so after you sail. The ship's staff is tremendously busy at sailing time and for many hours thereafter, and if vou walt for .your mail or a motice to be sent to vour stateroom you may be out a day be- fore vou get it. “Another thing to ask for early— usually at the purser's office—is a passenger list, printed ashore from the stateroom reservation lists. A copy will be delivered to you in due time, but you can have it hours ahead by merely asking. From it you can find whether you have acquaintances aboard, and, If so, look them up. Choosing a Table Seat. “Your seat in the dining salon is usually arranged for, unless other- wige announced, at the first meal after salling. Go early to this meal before too many others have had first choice. On the big boats you can find an arrangement to suit almost any sized party. If you are traveling alone and crave solitude you may have a seat at a table for two—quite alone if the ship is not crowded. If you prefer company, tell the steward so frankly and he will place you at a table with others. { Cheerful bugle biast order vour life on many of the big liners, but you must learn what they mean or they will lead you hopelessly astray. blast in the reasonably ear! at 8 o'clock ship's of two things. It are an early riser and are taking a pre-breakfast walk on deck, it is a signal that vour food is ready. If you are a late sleeper (and an ocean voyage is the chance of lifetime for. laziness' it means that vou can take 40 more winks and still be in time for a late breakfasi; or with a feeling of magnlificent luxury you can drowsily decide to let breakfast go hang. while you turn over to sleep as many more hours as you like. Make the most of your week. There ng; least i 1 morn- time ‘o are no commuters' specials to catch, no offices to be reached at 9, no { time-clocks, lteral or metaphorical, [to be punched. The boat plows serenely on whether you sleep or wak “If you hear a bugle blast at about 10:30, pay no attention to it. It is not for you and your fellow passeng- ers, but for the shi crew. It sig- nifies that ihe captain is making an unexpected inspection of some part lof his domain. | Hot Broth Unheralded. | “Having made the acquaintance of |the breaktast bugle, the ‘ocean ten- derfoot’ might well think the 10:30 bugle call connected in some way with the hot broth that appears about this time for those in deck .chairs. But this comes quite unheralded—a mere detail in carrying out the ship’s man- agement’s evident intention to keep the passengers continually busy with food. The food schedule on a big liner runs something like this: Break- fast, 8 to 10; hot broth, 10:30 or 11; luncheon, 1 to 2:30; after-luncheon coffee, 2 to 3; afternoon tea and cakes, 4 to 5; dinner, 7:30 to 9; after-dinner coffee, 8:30 to 9:30; sandwiches in the smoking room, 10 to 11. b “The second bugle for passengers blows at 1 o'clock, and means lunch- eon is then ready. At 7 p.m.:the bugle sounds again. But do not rush to the dining salon. It is simply & signal that it is time to dress for din- ner. At 7:30 the bugler quite out- does himself in the cheeriness of his c‘l‘ll ao the chief prandial occasion of the day. ““The only other mgpr signal of the gt Rules for *Tenderfoot” on; The | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1926. SALE OF TWO POTOMAC FORTS DECLARED BLOCKED IN HOUSE MARYLANDERS ASK FORT PRESERVATION | Planning Commission Acts to Save Washington and Hunt. Body Is Organized. Plans for the participation of the Maryland Planning Commission as an | ally of the National Capital Park Planning Commissicn in the regional development of the so-called metro- politan district of Washington were discussed yesterday at an organization meeting of the Maryland body, held in (he offices of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission in the Evans Building here. The members of the commission were named - several months ago by Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, but crganization was held in abeyance pending the passage Yof the National Capital Park and Planning Commission act by Con- gress, which provided the necessary authority for the co-operation be- tween the Maryland as well as similar Virginia body, in. this planning work. Commission’s First Act. The first definite act of the commis- sion was the passage of the following resolution, urging the acquisition of Forts Washington and Hunt for the park system of the regional area. This resolution follows: “Whereas it has been proposed by the War Department of -the United States to sell Fort Washington, Md., and Fort Hunt, Va., to private inter- ests under the law providing for the [ disposition of obsolete forts; “\Vhercas these forts have played an important part in the history of the National Capltal from thetime of their establishment; “\Whereas these forts, are essen tially suited for public uses and might fall into the hands of persons unmind- ful either of the history or sentiment | surrounding them, and therefore be despoiled: “Whereas, these forts could be em braced in the plans of the Natfonal Capital Park Commission as most de- sirable units in the general scheme of providing adequate jpublic recrea. tional places for the years to come: Be it “Resolved, by the .aryland Planning Commission” duly uppointed by Gov, Ritchie to co-operate with the o tional Capital Park Commission, Fhat Fort Washington and Fort Hunt should be acquired and placed under the jurisdiction of the National Capi. tal Park Commission, that the interests of the general public i served: And be it “Further resolved, That coples of this resolution be forwarded to mem- bers of the military affairs commit- tee of the United States Senate and the llouse of Representatives now considering legislation looking toward the disposition of the aforesaid prop erties.” best be N 2 Brooke Lee Chairman. Maj. E. Brooke Lee of Silver Spring, former secretary of State of Mar land, was elected chairman of the Maryland group, which i8 composed of the following members: T. Howard, Duckett, chairman of the Washing- ton Suburban Sanitary Commission, Hyattsville; J. Enos Ray, chairman of the Maryland Tax Commission, Mount Rainfer; Oliver Owen Kuhn. president of the Montgomery County Civic Federation, Alta Vista; Charles H. Merryman, president of the Bradley | Hills Community League, Bethesda; Ben G. Davis, former chief clerk of the Department of State, and now town treasurer of Takoma Park; Frank L. Hewitt, Silver Spring: Capt. Chester ‘Wells, U. 8. N, retired, Chevy Chase, Md.; Frank C. Hutton, former mem ber of the Maryland State Road Com- ! mission. Gaithersburg, Md.. Col. E. Francis Riggs, capitalist, Hyatisville: Perry Boswell, vice president of the Prince Georges Bank, Mount Rainier; Judge Jospeh C. Mattingly, Circuit Court of Prince Georges County, Oxon Hill; George W. Waters, jr., county treasurer of Prince Georges County, Laurel; Irving Owings, mayor of Hyattsville, and Robert N. Morse, chief engineer of the sanitary com- mission, and who was also elected secretary of the planning commission. Certain plans for the co-operation of the Maryland body with the Capi- tal commission were discussed in a general way, but nothing definite will be done, according to Maj. Lee, until he has conferred withh Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the office of public buildings and parks of the National Capital. Organ Monkey Bites Girl. Somebody stepped on the tail of Chip, a trained monkey owned by John Fiorelco, an organ-grinder, of 317 East 111th street, while the mon- key was performing in the midst of a group of children on Third avenue, Long Island City, says the New York Tribune. The monkey turned and bit Wilma Miller, 5 years old, of 395 Third ave- nue. Wilma was attended by an ambulance surgeon for bites on both legs. Fioelco was not arrested, but was told to take his monkey home and tie him up until he could be in- spected by an officer from the De- partment of Health. e Birds Make Home in Mud. { The home-making of the ibis in Australia entails the treading down of reeds into the mud. Each year thou- sands of the birds gather at the junc- tion of the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee i Rivers and make their nests. The birds utter booming sounds heard for miles. The young are topheavy and subject to easy drowning. day on shipboard is the blowing of the whistle exactly at noon, ship's time. On the larger liners, at least, the whistle is heard at no other time, unless there is a dense fog. The whistle is blown for a double purpose at noon: to signal the time, and to test the whistle itself. Keeping Ship’s Time. “You must watch vour time care- fully on shipboard. On the trip to Eu- rope you will lose five hours. What the loss is each 24 hours depends on the speed. On the fastest liners it amounts to an hour a day. At some places on each ship—usually in the main companionway and often near the purser's office—is a large clock below which is the sign: ‘This clock will be moved on (back on the return voyage) blank minutes at midnight.” It is well to pay your respect to this timepeace en route to bed each night and to make the change then and there. Otherwise you may miss your morning engagements with both steward and friends by from 45.to 60 minutes. “Don’t fancy you can stand at the rail and see the traffic of the seven seas go by on your way to Europe. The day of crowded steamer lanes is no more. Now two tracks are ‘staked out’ in the ocean for ships, one eastbound and one westbound. On one of its most recent voyages to Eu- rope the huge Majestic was seemingly almost_as isolated as Columbus’ little fleet. It sighted a tramp steamer the gecond day out from New York. 'here was no additional visual evi- dence that other ships sail the Atlan- tic until the big vessel approached the English Channel, only a few miles from her destination.” While Zihlman Bill to Preserve Sites as Parks Can Hardly Be Passed Now, No Other Dispositi Assurances that the Zihlman bill to purchase Fort Washington, Md., and Fort Hunt, Va., as additions to the Natfonal Capital Park system will be carefully considered were given today by Representative James of Michigan, acting chairman of the Tlouse com- mittee on military affairs, to which the bill had been referred. Mr. James also said that he hgd given simllar assurances to Mr. Zihlman and other members of Congress interested in the preservation of these two historie Army posts on_the Potomac River, which the War Department has asked the permission of (‘ongress to sell be- cause they have become obsolete in the scheme for artillery defense of Washington. It was pointed out by Mr. Jam however, that there is little likelihoo that the measure can be reported Lo the House at this session be his committee is tied up in conside ing matters relating to the Alr § ice. At the same time he the War Department’s bill sale of these posts would be held up in committee until the next session of Congress, in December, an | pointed out that no, action toward their d Assurances Are Given on Will Be Made. position could be taken untl this measure is acted on by Congress. Should the Senate pass the bili. wh-ch was reported favorably by its com mittee on military affairs several cays ago, it would come to the House committee and there rest with the Zihiman bill. He pointed to this as indicating that the posts cannot be sold until the whole question is acted upon in the House military affairs committee. Before any actiop is taken on the Zihlman bill, Mr. James said a hear- ing would be held and representatives of the Natlonal Park and Planning Commission be given a full oppor- tunity to explain the need and the reasons for retaining these two posts under government control as a part of the park system of the District of Columbia and its environs. Members of the military affairs committee of the House are much interested in the project to save these historic places, as was indicated by their action early in the vear when they refused to permit the names of Fort Washington and Fort Hunt to be included in the list of Army posts which the War Department was at that time given permission to sell. DISGUISING NATIONS® NAMES SEEMS A WORLD-WIDE HABIT As Example, Present Use of “United States of America™ Is One of Most Barefaced Conques on Record in Realm of Nomenclature. The United States does not recog- | nize Russia. Neither does Russia rec ognize “Russia,” according United States Post Office Department. If an American wishes to order caviar through a Moscow concern, the best advice is that he address the let ter to the Union of Socialistic Soviet Republic. In order to educate the world to the new name, the Soviet | government frequently carries out its | threat to return all mail addressed to | “Russia.” “Misnaming nation: established habits, the tional Geog! shic Society. *“The following are the real names which well known nations call them selves. How many can you identify? “Misr, Afrl Maghreh, Eestl | abarik, Iran, Lietuva, Suomen, Tasavalta Die Republlk Osterreich, to is one of our | a bulletin of for the end cepled English nar ons are printed at these na }of this column | within Know U. S, as “Since United States citizens do not call foreign nations by their native names, they take liberties with ou When a representative of the Na tional Geographic Soclety left for the | Trentino District, Italy. recently, he | carried business cards which gave the | society’s name in Italian und the ad- | “America.” | Neither appeared on the dress as ‘America.’ tates’ nor ‘U. S. A card. In rural districts the peasants | know of ‘America,’ but many of them | have never heard of ‘the United | States.” “The world habit of misnaming na- | tions can be excused. Some nations | cannot agree on their own names, so | the world must fix on some form. One | of the discoveries of Americans tour | ing Europe is that Switzerland not Switzerland. If you are in north or | German Switzerland it is Schwelz, | south or Italian Switzerland it is vizzera. west or French Switzerland, | uisse. The map shows Luxemburg on the international fence. between Germany and France. It is also on the lizual fence, possessing two names Grand-Duche de Luxembourg an Groszherzogtum Luxemburg The | Irish Free State also is known by the | Gaelic Saorstat Eireann. | Perpetuate Ancient Ideas. | “Excepting New World titles, names of nations are usually the old- est relics of humanity. Like all an- tiques their origins are often shroud- ed in mystery. Frequently names perpetuate the opinion one tribe had | of another in the days of barbarism. The official name of Germany today is Deutsches Reich. They call them- | selves Deutsch, which is the name English-speaking people have allotted to the natives of Netherlands. The French call them Allemandes, literally toreigners. Slavs call the Germans ‘Niemiec,” which means ‘dumb men." | They were ‘dumb men’ to the Slavs, since they could not speak the Slav language. Slavs call themselves the Slowjane, ‘the intelligent people,’ but all Germans call them the Wends, that _js, ‘the strangers.’ “England reveals name dissension nearer home. The Welsh call the English the Saeson: the Gaels of Scot- jand call the English Saoz; the Irish, Sasunaich; and the Manxmen, Sag- sonach. A Welshman is not a Welsh to a Welshman, but a Cymry. “Brazil is now officially B But before that ‘'z’ became an ‘s’ many paper and ink battles were fought in Brazil. For many years there was noa the | | center of the *United | ¢ | As a matter | States, the note i | America, Mexico fixed style. On a bank note it might and on a stamp it _might be ‘.’ says, articles and books were writ- ten on the subject by persons with leisure to investigate and conjecture. The name comes from one of the first products found in Brazil, one now ignored. a ‘dvewood which produced a fine red. In Portuguese there is a word ‘brasa’ meaning ‘live-coul.’ Since the description fitted the product and the product the country, Brazil it came to be. American tice still uses the * i Chinese Name for Japan. the name for their island kin ppon eographic bsurdity een corrected by modern raphic decision. means nd ‘pon’ rising In Jap don h Bec sun | is the country of the rising sun whom could it be which the &un rose? certainly! Obviously name because the island lay where the Chinese saw the sun rise But the last century the interna tional date line was mirked down the Pacific Ocean. It estab- lishes where day begins according to earthly agreement. Therefore Japan is the first major territory touched by the rising sun of a new day he confused welter of names would seem to require some agreement by all the nations. The use of French s the language of diplomacy would seem to offer a common denominator for fractious nomenclature. But fol- lowing the Versallles negotiations at the close of the World War there was a revolt against this practice. Eng sh speaking nations wanted English and Spanish speaking nations Spanish. of fact French is still largely the language of diplomacy— with exceptions. When the Brazilian overnment addresses Italy it is in French and the reply is in French. But when it addresses the United in Portuguese and the country over Not to Jupanese it is & Chinese the reply in En Americans” te “America.” Consider our name ‘the United States of America.’' Americans proudly proclaim that this title does not stand for a nation which is an empire gathering vast territories to it- self by conquest. Yet the present use of ‘the United States of America’ is one of the most remarkable and bare- faced conquests on record in the world of nomenclature. An American is recognized everywhere now as a na- tive of the United States, but there are 75,000,000 people in Canada, Central and South America, 1st_as much right to-the 125,000,000 citizens of the United States. We speak of ‘the United States’ as if there could be only one federation by that title. There are two other ‘the United States,” Venezuela and Brazil. "The United States has been empiri- cal even in the pronunciation of the name America. The French call us ‘Amerique’ and the Italians ‘America,’ with the ‘am’ one syllable as in ‘am- bulance.” This is probably the style of the Florentine accountant, Amerigo Vespucci, who donated his Christian name to label two continents. But English speaking _Americans have changed all that. We use the ‘A’ as a springboard and take a running dive into ‘merica.’ “The American version of the na- tions enumerated earlier in this bul- letin are: Egypt, Esthonia, Finland, Tunisia, Persia, Austria, Morocco, Lithuania nd Palestine. who have name as th E. P. SCOTT TO RUN FOR TEXAS OFFICE Is Wurzbach’s Candidate for Gov- ernor Against Regular Repub- lican Organization. By the Assoclated Pres: p SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 27.—E. P. Scott, an attorney of Corpus Christi, will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Texas with the support of the party faction led by Represenative Harry M. Waurzbach, only Repuglican member of the Texas,Congressional del fon. rzbach, in making this an- nouncement, said that Scott would not run in opposition to any particular person unless the State Republican organization headed by National Committeeman R. B. Creager and State Chairman FEugene Nolte puts a, ticket in the fleld. Scott announced he would outline his stand on ‘“vital issues” within 10 days. ‘Wurzbach’s opposition to the Texas Republican organization was launched recently in Washington, when in an address before the House he charged that Republican patronage had been abused throughout’ the South. Guillotine in France. It is 112 years since the death of Dr. Ignatius Joseph Guillotin, who invented the instrument for beheading persons at one stroke, causing instant and painless death. It was adopted by the assembly in 1792, and within a n'onth set up. The first person executed by it was a high- way robber named Pelletier. The first political victim was Dangremont, who was executed in August, 1792. During the Reign of Terror “The Widow,” as the instrument was popularly called, was in almost daily use, LINKED GIRL BABIES OTHERWISE NORMAL Joined at Hips, They Eat and Sleep Independently—Operation Believed Fatal. By the Associated Press. SOUTH BEND, Ind.,, May 27.—The two girl babjes, perfect in every re. spect save that they are linked to- gether facing each other, who were born here Saturday, are being sus- tained by bottle feeding, and gave every indication of living and grow- ing like normal babies. “The bables are here; a doctor's duty is to do what he can for them,” was the comment of Dr. Thomas A. Swant, attending physician for the twins, Lucy and Bessie Medich. He sald an operation to separate them would prove fatal. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Medich are deeply shaken by the strange birth. The mother, torn between mother love and the anguish of the handicap of her daughters, has expressed the hope that the babies will pass from the mortal scene to which they are so ill adapted. Unlike the famous Siamese twins, who were joined in such a way to pervent locomotion, these twins, who are joined at the pelvic girdle, will never be able to walk or move in any- thing like a normal manner. ‘The babies seem to live separate lives. Sometimes one sleeps while the other is feeding. Physicians say that should illness come to one it would affect the other. Similar twins, how- ever, have been known to survive for years. X-ray studies show that each child is complete as to heart, lungs, stomach and other internal organs, except that they share one colon. 1t pays to read the want columns of The Star. Hundreds of situations are obtained through thcm. | cerve RED CROSS NURSES NDW TOTAL 8100 Maj. Gen. Ireland Reveals Figure at Conference of Society’s Leaders. The trained nurse’s part in the pro- tection of society, with special empha- sis on her duties in times of war, famine or disaster, occupied the un- divided attention of the second Pan- American Red Cross conference this morning. The conference convened in the American National Red Cross headquarters for the first time since its inaugural session Tuesday The subject of nursing, which occu- | pies the second place in the agenda of the conference, attracted papers from six designated speakers—Miss Clara D. Noyes, director of the nurs: ing service of the American Red Cross; Dr. J. A. Lopez del Valle, direc- tor of the Cuban Health Service; Maj. Gen. M. W. Ireland, surgeon general of the Army; Gen. Julio R. Garino, president of the Argentine Red Cross, and Miss Katherine Olmsted, director of the nursing division of the League of Red Cross Socletles. 43,000 Nurses Ready. « Ireland more or less surprised his audience when he declared ghat the United States Army could enroll 43,000 trained nurses almost over night as a result of the nursins re- the Red Cross has built up During the Worid War, he added, the Red Cross-enrolled 33328 graduate nurses, of whom 22000 saw active military service. He described the work of the Red Cross as “the grei: est_single accomplishment of medical and nursing preparedness in history. “In the United States,” Gen. Ire land continued, “a Red Cross nurse is nurse who is trained by the Cross, for the American Red does mnot conduct schools for nurses in this country. Jere the Red Cross enrolls or lists nurses and keeps in close contact with them tLrough its carefully worked out system of State and local committees, in co-op- eration with the American Nurses' Association through its State orgaai- zations. Qualifications Are High The qualifications for Red Cross nurses are very high and in conse quence to be a Red Cross nurse is to be the highest type of nurse, and for a nurse to have a Red Cross badge and number means that she is fullv qualified for any service, meets all professional requirements and really need have no further questions asked about her. She has met certain physical requirements and is a grad- uate of an accredited school and has passed her State board examination Moreover she has agreed to be ready for any national emergency. ‘Should the Army need tomorrow for a national emergency a large re- inforcement of its own nurse corps this is what would happen. The surgeon general would notify the Red Cross that so many nurses were needed in a certain place. The Red Cross would %0 notify its nursing committee near- est the scene of action and the mem- bers of the committee would summon the nurses by telephone. As the nurses reported their identity would be wired to headquarters and the surgeay general would issue orders for them to report to designated offi cers. From then on they would be under military control.” Model School Described. Miss Noyes described a model school of nursing. At the outset she showed that radical changes are needed in many nursing schools. Too frequently. she said, the stu- dent nurses receive a preponderance of surgical training and a minimum of experience in other services, al- though she added that good surgical training is essential for a sound foun- dation in aseptic technique. Many times, the speaker said, nurses are overburdened with patients and long hours, and in their leisure mo- ments have no place to retire where they will be altogther alone. In coun- tries where nursing has made most progress, she said, nurses in free wards have five patients each by day and 10 at night; in the private wards they have three patients each by day and five at night. She held this to be an ideal ratio. “In some countries,” Miss Noyes continued, “nurses are kept on duty 12 to 14 hours. In others, where nursing has made the greatest prog- ress, the S-hour day prevails, and in some a H4-hour week. A report of the National League of Nursing Education referred to this subject in the following language: ‘The very purpose for which the student payvs by her service Is frustrated by long hours, Red Sees Teaching Wasted. " 'Good teaching is wasted on stu- dents who have been engaged in pro- longed, heavy. physical effort, or in exacting forms of nursing which in- volve considerable mental and nerv- our strain. The senses are dulled, the mind works slowly, concentration is practically impossible, wrong impres- sions are carried away, but worse than all of these is the fact that the student acquires a distaste for the work which is made too dif. ficult for her to accomplish credit- ably, ® *°* ““It is strange that hospitals have been so slow in grasping and apply ing the findings of science on the subject of fatigue.'™ As to housing, Miss Noyes declared that each nurse should have her private room and that those on night duty should be assigned room where the normal noises of daily-work and trafic would not interrupt sound sleep. This afternoon the delegates left for Annapolis on special trains. They will be received at the historic Mary- land State House by Gov. Ritchie, and later will be taken on a tour of the United States Naval Academy. The regiment of midshipmen will be ordered out on dress parade in their honor. The return to Washington will be made tonight. SERVICES WILL BE HELD FOR RODGERS TOMORROW Retired Naval Officer, Who Died at Monte Carlo, Will Be Buried in Arlington. Final rites for Real Admiral Ray- mond Perry Rodgers, U. 8. N., re- tired, who died in Monte Carlo De- cember 28, will be conducted in Arlington Cemetery tomorrow after- noon at 2:30 o'clock. The body has been in the Arlington receiving vault since last February. Rev. Walden Myer, canon of the Washington Cathedral, will officiate. Honorary pallbearers will be Rep- resentative J. Mayhew Wainwright of New York, Rear Admirals W. H. Brownson, J. R. Hubbard, 8. A. Staunton, W. W, Kimball and R. F. Nicholson; Gen. C. L. McCawley, U. 8. Marine Corps; Col. A. C. Macomb, U. S. A., and Woodbury Blair. Admiral Rodgers had a long record in_the Navy. He. was 76 years old. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Gertrude Stuyvesant Rodgers; a daughter, Miss Julia Stuyvesant; two brothers, Col. Alexander Rodgers, re- tired, and Rear Admiral T. S§. Rodgers, retired, and a sister, Mrs. Louis Nellson, STUART LEWIS QUITS NATIONAL U. POSITION Professor of History and Goverh- ment to Direct Department of Arbitration Association. Dr. Stuart Lewls, for the past five years professor of history and gov- ernment. at National University, has resigned to become director of re- search of the American Arbitration Association, with headquarters in New York. He will leave the local university at the close of the present term. Dr. Lewis long has been prominent in educational and legal circles in the Natfonal Capital. He came here from Calro, 111, 13 years ago and after re- celving his degrees of doctor of laws and doctor of philosophy became asso- ciated with National University. He has taught in both the law school and the school of business administration and has played a leading part in the upbuilding of the latter. Dr. Lewis also has held several legal positions with the Federal Govern- ment, the latest being with the Mex- ican Mixed Claims Commission. He at one time covered the Capitol for a local newspaper. RIFTS ALSO FAGED BY PRESBYTERIANS Modernism Affects Election of Moderator, Union and Licensing Pastors. ssociated Press BALTIMORE, May ~Three tilts on modernism and fundamentalism lay before the general assembly of the Presbyterlan Church in the United States of America. which opened its annual convention here today. The first of these clashes on inter- pretation of the scripture was set for this afternoon when a new moderator is to be elected Both of the candidates, Dr. Lapsley A. McAfee of Berkeley, Calif., and Dr. William O. Thompson of Coium bus, Ohio, are fundamentalists, but the latter was known to have liberal support. The opinions of the dele- gates have been divided so eveniy that none would forecast the result of the_election. This election, which recurs annu- ally, was set for the afternoon, after Dr. Charles R. Erdman of Princeton, N.'J.. had delivered his final sermon as retiring moderator at ghe morning meeting. The remainder of the morn- ing session was occupied with r ligious observance and announce. ments Report on Church Union. The first important business to come before the convention under the un named moderator will be the report of the committee of fifteen, appointed last vear to frame a program whereby By the the two wings of the church might be | brought together. This report will be presented at 2:50 tomorrow, after a final secret meeting of the committee tonight The third phase of the liberalism question will occur in the “trial” of the New York Presbytery. Three complaints have been filed against this presbytery. The complainants are led by Dr. Walter D. Buchanan, who a year ago complained to the General Assembly because the New York Presbytery licensed Rev. Charles G. Fuller and Rev. Cameron Parker Hall to preack when their attitude concerning Bibli cal teachings, such as the birth, did not satisfy a minority of the presbytery. decision of the General Assembly a year ago rebuking the New York Presbytery for licensing candidates whose orthodoxy was in question, the New York Presbytery virtually went on “strike” in deciding not to license candidates for the ministry during the current vear. Licensing Called Duty. The complainants charged that it is the constitutional duty of the pres bytery to consider all applicants for license, and the charge is made that young men are being kept from the ministry in New York, although churches are open to them if the pres- bytery would license them. The case will be referred to the permanent judicial committee which will hear it in executive session and report to the General Assembly to- ‘ward the close of the convention. , The assembly also will receive from San Francisco Presbytery an invita- tion to hold the assembly of 1927 there, with Calvary Presbyterian Church as the official host. Special time will belassigned dur- ing the convention to hear each of the four major boards of the church, di- recting foreign missions, national mis- sions, Christian education and minis- terial pensions. These will account for the expenditures of about $10,000,- 000 for benevolences. e e glmuuuumnumnulml||m||m|mmmummmmmln||m|m|cmlmm||||ml|m|||mumm||mm|lumnm|||||||||v vides.-every comfort ARSI CRI O LB OSSR TR system. fireplace. Spacious scaped with shrubbery in place. virgin | As a result of thel TAX APPEAL BOARD ORK IS PRAISED Senator Reed of Pennsylva- nia and Others Speak at Banquet to Group. Declaring the United States Baord of Tax Appeals “is at a milestone in its career” and well on ita way to ward functioning as a court, Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, a' the sane time was emphatic in pre dicting that the board will “not go very far if it acts merely as an ad ministrative body of the Internal Revenue Department and so interprets the tax laws as to squeeze all the revenue possible from the public, in an address at banquet given in honor of the board by those who practice before it, in the Willard Hote! last night. ‘There was a notable gathering of tax experts present, including the membership of the board, lawvers and accountants from various parts of the country. Charles Henry Butler, chairman of the tax committee of the American Bar Association, was chairman of the banquet committee, while George Maurice Morris served as secretary and was toastmaster. ‘Senator Reed developed the thought that when there is doubt about the interpretation of a law that it should not be an fronbound rule of the board to twist the law in favor of the De partment of Internal Revenue. Blair Takes Issue. Issue was taken with the Senator | however, by David H. Blair, com missioner of internal revenue. who in dicated that it is his belief that it ! should not be a question either of | favoring the taxpayer or the depart ment in any specific case, but em phasized that it should be the dut: of the board “to get the right answer in_every case.” Mr. Blair emphasized the general development of a spirit of tolerance in the whole department of internal revenue, saying: “There is more of an attitude in the bureau today tn find out what a man wants and to see that he gets it if he should have i.” Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Senate finance committee, in re ply to jibes at some general compli cations of the tax laws during the course of the banquet, sald: “1 know that the present tax law Is not per fect, but it is a great advance ove any we have had before it,” and pre | dicted that a new tax bill would he introduced in the near future. e however, that the present fax laws have met the approval of the people, adding that the board of tax appeals can assist greatly in making H _ | the tax laws of today what they ough® | to be and acceptable to the American people. 1 Calls Task Gigantic. He emphasized the gigantic task he fore the board when he pointed ou' that the number of appeals is growing much faster than cases are decided J. Gilmer Korner, chairman of the Board of Tax Appeals, in a brief ad | dress, said “it {s impossible to please both sides,” and emphasized the im | portance of following iron bound rules | of procedure in dealing with tax cases |and making no exceptions in an\ | case. Dr. Joseph Klein, president of the | New York State Bociety of Certified Accountants, praised the we of the | board and said that the members of | his profession felt it their. duty tn présent facts when appearing before the hoard. not trving to conceal an: | thing Addresses were delivered also by Representative Willlam R. Green chairman of the House ways and | means committee, and by Mr. Rutler Besides Mr. Morris and Mr. Butle: other members of the committee in charge included Murray Shoemaker of Cincinnati, Louls A. Lecher of Mil waukee, Wis., and Willlam M. Crook of Texas. 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