Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1926, Page 12

ewspaper men and official wilnesses of the hanging of llar erime trast,” shown wail s off the nfinutes before midnight Thursday, when the young ¢ ON PHONOGRAPH'S ANNIVERSARY. Tho s A. Edison is shown attending the celebra nge, N. J., of the nth anniversary of his inves of the phonograph. One of al music-makers, in the foreground, was played for the amuse- ment of the gathering. t by P. & A. Photos ng outside the Maryland State Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. HOPE the Weather Bureau at the telepho daily, via the Arlington radio station, the pro: and pther weather conditions throughout t Sikorsky three an attempted n uember of the URG INTERVENTION 1 knight of the Knights of ( ( treasurer, called os urge intervention by the American the Mexican government and the Secretary of State Kellogg (at 1C0. center) and D). AKING CAM mollusks of the James . supreme . supreme ight) yester overument in the troiible between Copyright by Henrs Miller. Na coast. Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of al Museum, is shown with the specially con- structed moving picture camera he is taking with him tor a sixv-week study of sea life on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off the FI Jorida Copyrizht by Underwood & Underwood: SIKL HARUFACTURING NEARING COMPLETION FOR ATLANTIC NON-STOP FLIGHT. Here is a starl tored plane which is receiving the finishing touches at Roosevelt n-stop flight from New Y Hawaiian BREAKS GLIDING RECORD. Pilot Schulz more than doubled the nard view of the huge I, Long I8 When he sailed air in this glider, the Westpreusser previous distan FLYING DECLARED . epevune o Woman, 88, Ten-Year Resident, | Succumbs at Son's Home. |for the past 10 yvears, died Yesterd; {at_the home of her son, Charles D. Weidenhamer, 4606 Sixteenth street, |after w brief illness, She 1 survived [ by two other s Horace G. and | | Walter L. Weidenhamer of Williams- port, Pa. uneral | tomorrow | residence vears ol Capt. Heinen Defends Diri- gibles—Maj. Gardner An- nounces *“‘Foolproof” Plane. services will he conducted night at § o'clock at the by Rev. Join . Palmer of Washingion Heighis Preshyterian Church. The hody will be taken to | Watsontown, Ta., for buri REPAIRS ARE BEGUN " ON COURT BUILDING Remodeling” Wl“ . New Chambers for Justice McCoy and Grand Jury. Br the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, Flying cither need ous, in Angust 11 airplanes | considered danger-, widely Kknown experts on aerial navig . 1" navigator of an airship Knows and understands the laws gov erninz atmospheric variations the i > chance in a million to stop from going where he wants Capt. m Heinene noted man divigible pilot, told the Allen town Rotary Ol Te said the dir 2 last riddle of air hy I opinion airships -or not now the of two the X Provide i i 1 5 L Under the divection of United States | Marshal Fdgar workmen we engaged ing the District Supreme Couwt Building. The estimate for the about same time Maj Lester D, New York announced here “foolproof™ airplane, new which “anyhody half. hour.” will national air races eptember 4 to 11 in the Sesquicentennitl <nydel husily in repa A machine an learn to be exhibited 1o be he nnection xposition Capt. Heinen's talk tary O] stanch | inside the dir He dwelt ex | ehamby the possibilities of beinz pr and said t ner yepairs 000, The rou ed and with being repaired and paint- 1 woodworR retouched. both 1out. A new room for the of Chief Just McCoy is pared in the northeast cor- f the building, a 1 partition 1 is possible in the very | being placed in the larze reom mak- cost of 1 cent per|ing a separate room the justice ” and another for his secreta The larze s now o the lunchroom on the thir floor 1o be taken over by United States At- | torney Gordon October 1. Here will the heaving room for the | ind roows for witne having charge of M. nois also Viding one of the vooms of his oftice in the S0 ux 1o gike two rooms ssistants ast of improvemenis are ex- pected o completed before the all term, October before the T defense for upied by nis Court. Maj nds in The | doseribed by ner is L fts exhibiti create (ed and jury - oftivials Wiight ! = that Hvin; weupation. Chavacteristies make the jue,” Maj, Gardner saddd sine stops, the plane th t can be landed tennis cour It desived ean | s i of more than mile a Tt can also fly he rate of an ho mor i nthe flew in 1903, 10 the air 1 be a hazard “Neveri > visitors need ot the autoxivo 1 e “If the e seends so slowly in a make minute 10 miles CRITICISM IS DECRIED. Roe Fulkerson Urges Round Table lub to Study Polities. offi HAIL FMLED TO HURT IT | Kansas Farmer Collects Insurance Then Gets 35 Bushels to Acre, Due to Long Rains. riticism of pul more hoosting and praise was u upon membess of the Round Club at itx weekly meeting ¥ the Univer Club, by Tt i son, editor of the Kwianis Club's in Washington, He urged the members to study political condl- | lions in Burope and America, after which, he predicted, one would be le prone to criticize the functioning of e Government Me also discussed ngninst Friday the Thi numeros citations of historica & on the Thirteenth, « hut untucky. By the Associated Press NEADE, K: t evop in 1 this y not Wheat on th was pronounced { stones as large as goif ball (tered to the ground every head of IS several w heforg harvest. | Unusual prolonged rainy weather kept (he field green. New stalks sprang <! from the roots. Finally Cummins ob- ed tained n vield of 25 bushels an acre. Another farmer. who had collected hail insurance, harvested hushels from every acre. This insurance com pan ving admitted its loss. found nn recourse ta compel the farmer to !return his insurance money. Less ¢ 14.—The was so Aug Meade € that s, ist wh ity ar hailstorms could ge Cammins farm s had bat- the prejudices the day wi esident Mok cted dels 1 next tary Tz chib were natie Cinc | Staty | 000,000 only a few are thus interested, | | 1t is not incredible to foresee the time | cordance | tion, DEFENDS POTENCY OF PUBLIC OPNON W. J. Abbott Says Masses Have Big Part in Shaping Foreign Policy. By the Associated Pres WILLIAMSTOWN, 14.—Public Mass., August opinion in the United States itself very actively with foreign affairs and is a dominant force in influencing Rovernmental ac- tion, despite the insistence of profes sional diplomats that the public keep “hands off,” the Institute of Politics was told yesterday. The speaker was | Willis J. Abbot, editor of the Chris- | tian Science Monitor. “Few questions relating to the in relations of the United | come up for consideration at hington without the American sex taking a hand to an_extent most obnoxious to the State Depart- ment, which would much prefer that public _opinion ana foreign affairs should he entively divorced,” Mr. Ab- bot said. concerns ternational Cites Lausanne Treaty | “The Lausanne treaty a case | in point. It might be thought that the qu on of re-establ ing diplo- matic relations with Turkey was one in which only an insignificant fraction of our people would take an interest. | Probably it is true that of our 110, | but those few are the sort that make and express public sentiment. “Docs this opinion influence the | action of the Govel nt? s it potent | shaping the foveign policy of the | vernment? Sometimes we find_the v authorities thit are most positive n deprecating the interference of pub- | lic opinion with foreign affairs using | that opinion as a_convenient for action taken by the administra- tion. The Secretary of the Treasury and two Secretaries of State repeated- Iy have declared that public opinion would not support any action looking toward the cancellation of the foreign . Yet there has been a very | s ble body of educated public opinion urging precisely that course. when it will become so strong that some future administration in defer- ence to public opinion will act in ac- | with it. Rut even_ should that come to pass, it will afford no more conclusive evidence of the power | of public opinion than does the pres. | ent situation, with the adminis pointing to a lack of any den cancellation as a reason for proceed- | ing with its policy of speedy culle Discusses Press’ Influence. Referring to the influence of the | press as #n exponent and director of the opinion of the public, Mr. Abbot at is a function, the performance of which demands the highest ideals and the loftiest purposes. I do believe | they are more generally cherished than is commonly believed, but among newspaper owners of the type that put the eagerness for profit ahead of | all other considerations one can hard v expect any single-minded devotion to the public’ welfare.” | painters, Arkansas Slayer Cheats Electric Chair By Hunger Strike Lasting for 65 Days By the Associated Prose LITTLE ROCK, An aged Avkans grave vesterd: | months ago and he was placed in a | el with two other condemned Yo went to his | ne On the day the other two imphant in a slow | were executed, Stribling began his and stealthy race against death by | fast. 5 electrocution. While Gov. Tom J.[ Penitentiary authorities Terral, campaigning for renomination, | know of it until two weeks 2 delaved fixing h Tom < the that were Stribling, Critte; should It was noted, how- he executed for murder, Stribling for that he spent most of his time 65 days refused the m s that were | lving on his cat, refusing to ex i given him and died yesterday from | All the time Stribling consigning pneumonia, induced by ation. | his food to the drain pipes, taking He carried out his ¢ zn, de-|only an occasional swallow of milk. spite the fact that several well known [ After his removal to the hospital he citizens were preparing to appeal to | abandoned his attempt at conccal- the governor for clemen ibling [ ment and declared himself on a had always denied that he kilied “hunger strike. negro who had attacked his daughter| Friends of the old mnegro* believe, some time hefore. A jury and the |howeve; at his purpose was not to Supreme Court failed to accept his | bid for freedom or commutation, but alibi. in his own words, to “beat the electric His chair” hy starvation, Angust 14.— not . | sentence was affirmed three | GOLDEN RULE SUNDAY POSTER PRIZES OFFERED BARBER TELLS SECRET OF KAISER’S MUSTACHE Was Put in Silk Strap Daily to At- tain Spiked Effect, Omahan Says. $1.000 to Be Given for Best Near | East Relief Placards, Slogan and Poem. y Announcement of \test for [ By e Associated Press illustrators, cartoonists, | OMAIA, August 14.- kers of the Dis. | Kniser Wilhelm's spiked effect mus- triet, with prises totalling §1.000 offer, | tache is explained by Carl Sehropp of ed for the hest posters, poem and o slozan setting forth the appropriate | OMaha. ML Ll L character of Golden Rule Sunday fall. | the former Emperor, originated the ing hetween Thanksziving = and | fameus tonsorial characteristic. R o itz || Schropp, 'who setved imanyl of it st Relief, 321 Bond Ruilding. | Tope’s royalty until “discovered” by s inclide one for $300 for | the Kaiser; said: most_compelling poster in any s . = medium: §100 for the second. $100 for i s the third_and $100 for the fourth. A | thoroughly. Then. with my finge e of $100 is offered for the most [T would push the hairs up at eith ctive poem 1nd a similar sum for | #nd until they stood as vou have seen tlic mogt tellin [them in pictures. Next 1 took a The poster may be of any shape, it | Schnurbartinde (@ mustache strap,) ncimted {made of fine xilk, with hooks on end. Entries in this co and put it over the olia (ana sent to local Ne ach the hooks to the Kaiser's ears. quarters but o 1 my fingers and a fine comb to Smith, secretary put the ha just so: then with the ce, to be received not later than | mustache steep on it, I would wait for sday, August Near | it to dvy. After that the Kaiser's elief employes are not allowed | mustache would stay the way he o compete. . wanted it for 24 hours Two hoiirs was the ust hy the Kaiser in the roy room, Schropp said. poets and wha, as per Wi Mrs. Mabell S, of the ard - com- | 1 time spent l.lflnwnrml Game Birds Food by Plane. For what is helieved tn he the fi time on d an_ airplane will used to distribute food to the game | birds in Blair county, Pa | A hopper with a capacity of 200 pounds of mixed grain and corn will carry the feed. which will be released at convenient places for the wild life. Wild Antelope Increase. Such rigid protection has heen corded wild antelope in the Western States that the Increase in the Jasg| devotes herselt entirely to laying few years has been noticeable. | eBES. Recently a single herd of 22 ani-| mals has been seen grazing at one time, whereas a few years ago a herd of eight was considered large | Wasps Natural Thieves. Wasps are natural thieves, and they pillage the sweet things from all man- ner of places, even the hees not being immune. But the wasp is a manufa turer also, chewing up bits of wood and mixing it with a glutinous saliva | to make a paper-like substance out of which to build its ne The queen wasp is a good lahorer in her carly davs, but eventually she “Rabbit Fever” Hits Humans. “Rabbit fever.” the epizootic disease n called “deer fly fever,” which Kills off wild rabbits in great numbers, is occasionally transmitted to humans through tick and fly bites so that cases have been reported in 22 differ- ent States. The disease is a disabling one, fre- quently incap patient for meonthz, and in it termi nated fatally. Those Dear Girls. From the ‘Boston Transcript Tell me jt what sort of a-man your fiance is, Clara.” “Oh, he's evervthing that's nice. ‘I'm <o glad. Yon know I've alwa said that people should marry the opposites.” He | passed | se. The secrot of | the mustache | EUROPEAN STEEL - TRUSTIS PLANNED French, Belgian, German-and Luxemburg Interests Work- ing on Details. | By the Associated Press. PARIS, August 14— Representa- | tives of French, Belgian, German and Luxemburg steel interests today are expected to work out the details of a continental iron and steel trust, the ohject of which will he the allotment | to each country of a reasonable s of the requirements of the varios | markets. The orzanizers of the pro} ect have in mind the idea of endeavor- ing to the evils that have srown up since 1914. The view is taken that ther annot he a con- tinued iv ase in production without disruptin the steel and iron trade, There is no intention, it is sald, to in ase pri Also it is asserted thal the proposed nization_will not necessarily be to France, Belgium, Germany xemburg, and that eventually can and_British steel and iron interests may be included. British in- terests are understood to have decided that if they go into the combination at the present time it would bhe under disadvantageous circumstanees, owing to the present disturbed state of Brit ish industries. GERMANS ARE OPTIMISTIC. remedy | Trade Outlook Rflghl: Coal Contracted For Months Ahead. BERLIN, August 14 (®.—The Rhenish Westphalian Industrialists e most optimistic regarding the de- velopment of the Rulir trade gener ally, and express the conviction that even speedy termination of the British miners’ strike would not have an im- mediate effect on the favorable posi- tion. ‘They claim that the technieal su- prémacy and superior organization of the Rubr over British industry will make itself in the international mar- kets, especially in view of the impend- ing continental steel agreement and {the cessation of the Franco-Belgian {dumping competition. | Contracts for export coal have been | concluded for several months hence, | and the demand for household coal in | iPanlahd and Germany, which it has been impossible to satisty owing to increasing requirements for industrial a hipping purposes, will stimulate trade. Hearing Muscles Creak. and opening the hand is entirely noiseless. As a matter of fact, 8 the Popular Science Magazine, every | muscle action is noise. Every time ou move, or breathe, or talk, you his fact was proved in a recent | demonstration of a new electrical | stethoscope perfected by the Bell | Telephone laboratories in New York city. Three hundred persons heard the scratchinz and rumbling of the muscles as theyv slid over nne an. | ather in elenching and opening the hand. further | | | Most peopte think that clenching | ALBERT S. FRENCH DIES. of Engraving and Printing. Albert . French. e old, fore, n f the wettin division of the Burean of Engraving and Print ing, died yesterday at his residence. 3903 Kansas avenue. le is survived | by his wife, Mps. Belle S. French: a sister, Mrs.J. O. <. Roberts, and brother, Rayvmond L. French Iridgeport, Conn. . Funeral services whl be held Man |"day morning at 10:30 o'clock at his home under the auspices of Washing ton Centennial Lodg: No. 14, ¥. A A. M., followed by interment in Glen wood 'Cemetery. BOOKSELLERS UNITE | T0 INTEREST READERS Organization Formed Bring About Fuller Appreciation by Public in U. 8. to fated YORK, Old World literature into fuller the American Jlaunched as the American Booksellers' Pres Angust vehicles b8 One of bringing ppreciation by the public has heen Association. i 1o widely working the 1 the three raphical groups of ail outlets a | or four [ lishers. Through this means the haokseller will be hetter trained and a wider “range of literature placed hefore the publie. The association here is patterned in respects Livre at Pari W demned | or geo; prib- given lized \ which Ke contact with «all publisl through its reference nent in the finding and perpetiation of worthy hooks. aids all Iy has been ion which has to aidir sellers in using the refercnce volumes now extant and cooperates with the National Association of Book Publish- ers and General Federation of Wor en’s Clubs in maintaining at 181 one university course for hook: 2 The need for this work w trated by the association in compari son of the business in this country with Germany. While about 12,000 titles were published here last g Germany with one-third the popula | tion of the T'nited States three times that number hook ve salesman received a reply froi id that he was the gre n in the world. They e and gave him three li £00ds to sell anywhere in the \West. They expected him to do great things. After he had heen away a week and they had received no orders they were surprised to get a telegram say- i “Tam not the world's zreatest sales man. 1 am the second hest. The greatest salesman was the man who | loaded you up with these goods.” < illus- | SENATOR HARRISON * SEESTARIF ISSF In Paris, Says Dehts Will Be Unpaid Unless Barriers Removed. By tha A | rar Harrison the vived in Paris where he spent t | the “European question.” of pi, member « committee from B days stud Senate ince | ©One of his reports is that the ! pean countries will be unable to pa ates unle lowered. Ther tariff question w ; one in the next ean l their debts to the nited the tariff harviers fore, he said. 1l bound to be a b paign. nator Marrison declared that © was happy and conter e the Germans arations payment with the Dawes plan tor told how he up by the k h ties and forced to pa was hringing into the he said, as well as the open Jett | former 'remier Clemencean to dent Coolidge on the debt question, d not impress him favorably. While op t subject of debts, Mr son xaid that no member of Cor could go before his constituent dvocate cancellation of I sitedness. He had no idea lation ever would come, he admitted he would vote against the Mellon-Bere accord on t ground that it was too lenient France. e maintained tl settlements should cordanee ' 15 he at ea althou 2 ounds as the Eritain, that treated alike | The Infant Prodigy. | From the Kansas City Star | Chil who are mental glant 'lllu.u-&hhl ¢ a rule, no he 1 sensitiveness tha lauite ordinary children of their ax This is shown by experiments with « or children, conducted ta 8. Hollingsworth of Ce University. Result of the experiments, which are reported in the Jour of Ed tional Psyehol licate that s perior children roup make some | what better ratiy in their juds of time than other children of t . but not in other musi The ren wrilliant ehi were Jar than u of the same age, | cted that they m because of the ad opment of the anatomica rinvolved in n = musical This was not, howey the cas Since <clecte had been “Save the Lens” Week. A Scotchman v trip and he was leavin Good hye all *Jittie Dona {sn't lookin' at aething. nes and dinna