Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1926, Page 17

REPRE! ENTATIVE ROGERS ACTS AS' OWN SECRETARY. Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, member of the House from Massachusetts, is THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1926 COMING TO WASHINGTON AS THE NEW FRENCH ENVOY. Paul Claudel, newly appointed French Harry M. Daugherty, former At- torney Genefl of the United States, snapj "RETURN FROM EUROPEAN HONEYMOON. Stanle ‘manager of the Washington bas popular youn, y (Bucky) Harris, ball club, and his bride, arrive on the Le- yesterday after testifyin, TS hers of Afbert B. Fall ward L. Doheny. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. among the many members of Congress who already are on hand for the | opening of the session next Monday. She is shown deing a bit of her own mimeographing yesterday in her office at the House Office Building. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. the former Miss Elizabeth Sutherland of Washington, viathan after their honeymoon abroad. October. - AHRE They were married here in Ambassador to the United States, and Mme. Claudel in their Paris home. The new Ambassador, who is now Copyright by P. & A. Photos. his country’s envoy to Japan, has won distinction not only in the diplomatic fleld but also as a poet. He suc- ceeds Henry Berenger as the French envoy here. ‘Acme Photos. = | | D ARRANGING FOR SECOND PEACE CONFERENCE IN WASHINGTON. for the second conference on the Mrs. W. L. cause and cure of war to be held T. E. Brown, Mrs. Harvey S. Irw] llarbB general chal rman, to arrange here n and Mrs. William E. Chamberlain. ecember 5 to 10 by national women's organizations. front row: Mrs. Lamont Williams, Mrs. Darby, Mrs. F. E. Edgington, Mrs. Glen L. Swiggett; back ro £ RS Heads of local committees an- Left to right, Mrs. Washington Star Photo. AFTER EARLY ton (. Holden, who wil ne of Mrs. Leidy's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Widener, The marriage has recent divorce from young Carter Leidy, with whom she Leidy and cially prominent there. 's eloped about five years ago. ELOPEMENT. Mrs. Fifi Widener be married tomorrow at the Phila- has been rumored since Copyright by P. & A. Photos. TRAFFIC COPS PATROL. SWARMING W. swimmers are training at Long Beach, Calif., for the Catalina Channel swimmin these two humorists decided to act as self-appointed traffic cops to direct the sw of $25,000 at stake for the difficult 25-mile swim, more than a hundred of the best distan training for the event. HILL PLANS NEW FIGHT ONDRY LAW Declares Bill to Modify Act Will Be Pushed to Get Record Vote. By the Associated Press. Shortly after the bang of the Speak- er's gavel sets the House of Repre- wentatives vibrating formally for busi- aess Monday, Representative John Phillip Hill of Maryland, chairman of the unofficial committee on modifica: tlon of the Volstead act, plans to be- gin marshalling his forces for a new offensive against the dry law. Upon his return to the Capital, he announced that a subcommittee of the unofficial group had been at work dur- ing the Summer recess drafting a bill which, when introduced, is expected to carry the indorsement of every wet member in Congress. Hiil said the first thing for the com- mittee to determine would be whether ‘0 introduce the proposed bill at the \pproaching session or hold it over mtil the convening of the new Con- * iress. in which, he contends, the wet loc will have a materially increased nembership as a result of the Novem- ber elections. “Once the bill is introduced,” he sserted, “it will be pressed by every parliamentary means until brought to he floor of the House, where a rec rd vote may be obtained.” At its last meeting before the Sum- mer recess, he said, the full commit- tee instructed the subcommittee, which 's headed by Representative Dyer of Missour, to draft a measure embody ing the following recommendations “That the Federal act to enforce the eighteenth amendment is hereby mod- ified so that the same shall not pro- hibit the manufacture, sales, trans- portation )rtation or exportation of beverages 3 act intoxicating as determined in accord- ance with the laws of the respective States.” BOY ACCUSES FATHER. Testifies in Court That Parent Killed Deputy Sheriff. DES MOINES, Towa, December .1 #).—A sobbing, shrinking, 11-year-old boy testified .n District Court here yes- terday that his father, William Boyd, & quadroon, fired the shot that killed Deputy Sheriff Dewey Marshall Octo- ber 30. Looking at the floor, apparently to avold the eves of his father, charged vith first-degree murder, Homer Boyd \exitated momentarily when asked the lrect question by the prosecutor and hen replied, between sobs: “Papa fired he shot.” Homer gave his testimony over the fstrenuous objection of defense attor- eys. Marshall was slain, and Deputy heriff Grover Brent of Sedalia, Mo., was woundsd, when they attempted to agrest Boyd on & charge of larceny, Row Over Reward for Slayer Ended by Court Decision| Justice Bailey of the District Supreme Court yvesterday decided that John R. Francis is entitled to a reward of $1,000 offered by the National Benefit Life Insurance Co. in conection with the convic- tion of the murderer of Dr. Robert W. Brown, a wealthy colored physician, who was president of the company. Claim was also made to the award by W-. H. Robinson, and the company put the matter up to the court by a bill of inter- pleader. Dr. Brownwas shot down at the door of -his home November 27, 1920, and the company offered the reward for the conviction of Mis slayer. Later James A. Frye, col- ored, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder and the two claimants sought the reward. LAKE WATER FIGHT UP BEFORE HUGHES Six States Oppose Diversion From Lake Michigan Through Chi- cago Canal. The Nation’s hardiest legal peren- nial bloomed again today as counsel assembled for resumption of the Su- preme Court lake-diversion hearing. Under agreement of counsel, the six_States seeking to curb diversion of Lake Michigan waters through the Chicago Sanitary Canal will complete thelr case this week, after which a recess will be taken until January 10, when the defendants will begin their ebuttal. i Charles E. Hughes, speclal master | |of the Supreme Court, is conducting | the hearings. 1n which seven lower | Mississippi Valley States are support- | {ing the sanitary district in resisting | the attempt of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York to prevent continued diver- | | slon of Lake Michigan waters in Such | | quantities as may burden Great Lakes | shipping through lowering water levels. ! MAN KILLED IN BLAST. Five Others Believed Fatally Hurt in Explosions on Ships. SAN PEDRO, Calif., December 1 (#). | —One man was fatally injured and (12 others hurt, 5 so seriously they are not expected to live, in two ship | | explosions in the harbor here yes: terday. An explosion on the Union ofl tanker | Warwick cost the life of one man, | Lorenzo Nejar of San Pedro; a mess; boy, and injured nine others. Three men were hurt. two of whom may die, as the result of an explosion on the launch Swall Tast nightds od gubc PR ST S — R e e g FAIR ARCHERS DISPLAY SKILL . their arrows in a practice match yesterday. “ Kizer, Mildred Slaybough. Florence Niel and ON MONUMENT GROUNDS. Marie Siebold. BLIND AND DEAF PEOPLE - SUBJECT OF LECTURE Miss Mildred Kennedy of Boston to Address Speech-Reading Club Tonight. ’ Supposing you were brought before a medieval torture tribunal and of- fered the choice of having your eyes put out or your eardrums punctured, which punishment would you take? It would hardly ieem a debatable juestion. But the fact is that blind persons usually seem more cheer- ful than those to- dred Kennedy of Boston, who lec- tures this evening 2515 place. MISS KENNEDY. This is because, she says, ‘‘when you speak to a blind man you make him forget his troubles; when you speak to a deafened man you remind him of his.” Cliffbourne Miss Kennedy is making a trip across the continent, addressing clubs and leagues in the interest of persons | who are hard of hearing. Another event of the club's pro- gram this week is the annual Christ- mas sale, beginning Friday evening and continuing through Saturday. form of an insoluble sliime, rert- Gold in sea water is mostly in the [and the too & comm ,hmumw Members of the school team -shown here, Many Decisions on “Is” and “Are” Prove Professors as Much in Dark as Laymen By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 1.—Is it “are,” or are it “is”? The Burling- ton Railroad wants to know. So far it's fifty-fifty. It all started when the road sought to tell the world through paid adver- tising space that along its right-of- way “is” or ‘“are” produced two- thirds the oats, more than half the corn, etc., in the Unifed States. The advertising agency wrote “is" in the copy. The passenger traffic manager changed it to ‘“are,” the traffic vice president changed it back with a caustic remark about the grammar of the passenger depart- ment, if any. So the passenger traffic manager called the University of Chicago into conference. They told him he was right—absolutely. So _he reported to the vice president. The vice pret dent asked Northwestern University about it. They said he was right— positively. Then while the traflo manager dashed off a letter to Harvard, the vice president wrote to a lexicog- rapher. One said “is,” the other sald “are.”” Then while one wrote to Princeton, the other wired Yale, and | asked for a hurry-up .answer. Yesterday h answers came. | Princeton said “is.” Yale said “are.” And there you “are”—not “is.” CLAIRE DUX IN FAREWELL. Mrs. Charles H. Swift, Opera Star, in Final Professional Role. CHICAGO, December 1 (P).—Mrs. Charles H. Swift will becothe Claire Dux again tonight, when she steps before an Orchestra ° Hall audience probably for her last professional ap- pearance. She will share the program with Efrem Zimbalist, the violinist. The opera star's recent dec leave the stage when she married Mr. Swift, vice president of Swift & Co. packers, involved her in differences with Pacific Coast gpera companies who had_expected her presence dur- ing the Winter seasan. The difficul- tles were smoothed gver, however, place here a PALACE CLEAN-UP ENDS. Everybody Heaves Sighs of Relief at Buckingham. LONDON, December 1 (P).—When Buckingham Palace gets a cleaning, such as has just been finished, the old- fashioned processes get the call. Not a vacuum cleaner is tsed. As a result, officials, housekeepers and the small army of maids heaved several sighs of relief when the last touches had been made to the “Winter clean” of 500 rooms. The Queen’s rooms have so many valuable china specimens and price- less souvenirs of glass which must be replaced in exactly the same po- sition that photos were taken before the clean started so there could be no mistake about Girls of the Marjorie Webster School rang up more than one bull's-eye with left to right, are: Blanche Church, Kall Carter, Dorothy Natlonal Photo. 139 WOMEN TO SIT IN LEGISLATURES Make 2 Per Cent of Total — Mis- sissippian to Address Women’s * Bar Association. Nearly 2 per cent of the total mem- bership of State legislatures are wom- en—or 139 out of 7,642 for the 48 States. There are 10 woman State Senators and 129 woman members of the lower houses. These facts, learned in a recent survey by Miss Sue White, a Ten- nessee attorney, were announced today by the ‘Women's Bar As- sociation. One of the State Sena- tors, Miss Belle Kearney of Mis- sissippt, will be an honor guest and speaker at the an- nual banquet of nse KEARNEY. the association at Rauscher’s Saturday evening. There are two woman State Sena. tors in Ohio, the survey showed, an one each in Connecticut, Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsyl vania and Washington. Connecticut has 16 woman mem- bers of the lower house, New Hamp- shire, 13, and Vermont, 11. Ten States—Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas and Wyoming—have no woman representatives. A battery of suns cap fire 60 shells & minute, | $-inch anti-aircraft | Corner will be held this afternoon, TERS BEFORE CATALINA SWIM v long-distance y 15 that ith a prize mmers are de World Photos. mming traffi W Women Try Many Jobs in Industry Just for Variety Changing about of women from Job to Job in industry is now easy, | since most of the factory wor done by women today requires little skill or experience, the Women's Bureau said today. More than half of 97 woman workers who gave their reasons for 599 changes of jobs had held six or more jobs lasting a month or longer, and. of this group ap- proximately four-fifths had worked in industry eight years or more. The accounts of the different jobs gave evidence that the worker fre- quently made a change for the sake of varlety. “The individual worker cannot be assured today that he will im- prove his skill and his pay by holding on to his job, although a little while ago it was possible to do 0, a report by the bureau said. “In a good many processes the workers’ maximum efficlency may be attained after only a brief period of work. “If it is found that frequent changes of methods of employment are inevitable under modern in- dustrial organization, then dif- ferent methods of employment management and different indus- trial relations and tactics from those now in vogue in many places will have to be worked out.” SPIRITUALISM HELD AGNOSTICISM CURE Boston Surgeon Declares Psychic Research Will Kill Materialistic Factor in Science. By the Assoctated Press. WORCESTER, Mass., December 1.— Clark University’s symposium on psychic research has heard spiritual- cism. | Dr. L. R. G. Crandon, husband ‘of | “‘Margery,” the Boston medium, made that claim for it in a description o his wife's mediumship before an audi- ence that packed the Auditorium last | night. After describing manifesta- tions produced by “Margery” and in- vestigated by two committees of eci- entists, Dr. Crandon sald: ‘“Science, however, {8 emerging from its period of materialism. Science is bankrupt on the edge of the grave. Religion only offers a sleepy comfort. Psychic research will not only kill materialism, which is already dying, but will knock out agnosticism, which is the preva- lent condition of gur college gradu- ate. Hackett Ashes Reach U. S. NEW YORK, December 1 (#).—The| ashes of James K. Hackett, the Ameri- | can actor who died in Paris, were | brought to the United States for burial | by his widow, who arrived aboard the | Olympic last night. Memorial serv- ices at the Little Church Around the he | ism painted as an antidote for agnosti- 1 ;‘;’n"m;”‘;-ankm oy g TAX SLASH TO FORE AS CONGRESS 53U G. 0. P. House Leader Against Proposal, While Democrats Are Favorable. By the Associated Press. Tax reduction had emerged today as a leading theme of pre-session de- liberations of congressios leaders who are busily sketching programs de- signed to put the Senate and House to work as soon as they reconvene Mon- day. Representative Tilson of - Connecti cut, the Republican floor leader in the House, is opposed to consideration of tax revision at the short session, and is even inclined to move cautiously in advancing the administration’s tax- credt plan. Nevertheless, a tax reduction pro posal will be presented to the House soon after it meets by Representative Garner of the Democratic mah on taxation. The proposal has been prepared and, al- though its details have not been’ dis- closed, it is described as having the approval of almost every Democrat in Congress. Gurner doesn’t like the tax-credit plan, and neither does Representative Garrett of Tennessee, the Democratic floor leader, who thinks it 't the “glightest chance” of enactment. Pres. ident Coolidge, however, expects what- ever he might suggest along this line to be considered both houses of Congres to this effect have been observed at the White House, the official spokesman said yesterday, although the President has not discussed details of the plan with members of Congress. At the same time, a tentative list of legislative undertakings announced by Tilson as likely to consume the time of Congress during the short session contains no mention of tax revision. In addition to the annual appropria- he thinks the McFadden in ations adjustment of alien property claims now being completed by the wa and means committee, legislation to ame. forate the chaotic radio broadcasting conditions resulting from lack of reg: ulation, and, possibly, action on farm relief, will receive the major attention of the House. With Garrett, he also Is inclined to favor action to dispose >t the Muscle Shoals project. e BOYS KILLED BY BLAST. Bodies of Thres Blown ta Bits ‘When Dynamite Explodes. M‘?RGANTU\ December [’ flled late they were believed to have been play- ing exploded and blew them to bit: The dead are Donald Kennedy, 11; Mike Dudas, 11, and Louis Dudas, 12, brothers, all of Poland. The torso of the Kennedy boy was recovered, but only fragmentary W of the bodies of the brothers been recovered Jast pight,