Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1927, Page 17

THE - EVENIN( i STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . . THURSDAY, b, 1927, EN « JOYING zeneral for reparations, and vacation v here yesterday. Coolidge during M SENDS SEEDS TO REFOREST BATTLEFIELDS. is receives from Miss Mildred Brall of the Americ: Dav one of the many bags of Douglas shipping abroad to be used in ref and Belgium. VACATION FROM REPARATIONS . Ibert, American financial expert, who is serving in Berlin as agent Mrs. the day on the progre: POS Parker Gilbert, photographed on their Ibert conferred with President of his work. tional Photo. « Secretary of War an Tree Association fir seeds which the association is oresting the battlefields of Frauce Copyright by P. & A. Phtos. BALL PLAYERS Detroit-White Sox base ball se Landis. The players yesterd front row: John Collins, “Re Edwin Wide distance he arrived at New York on ti Berengaria Tuesday to participal in some of the distance events o American tracks. Copyright by P Sweden’s champio & A. Photo: nner, photographed as "ACE ACCUSER WITH EMPHATIC D) phone. shows some of the base ball players named b g leged v to_testify hefore Com ioner . _In the group, left to right, Bob Russell and Joe Benz. Wide World Photoe. v candal of 1917 a i Ia; ed’ P denial of the charg nd Clarence Rowland. Back on § e e e e, MORE MILEAGE OUT OF THE OLD SHOE. Miss Catherine Mc( Winter resorter at Lake Placid, N. Y., is getting it in this novel fa The snow makes a good road for the downhill roll. It also pro; an easy cushion for a possible spill. Herbert Photos. he te on JANUARY ¢ Navy nurses don new caps. Miss Rose E. Walker, on duty at the Navy Department, displays the new “storm cap,” which be regulation wear fa yesterday. Copyr Babe Ruth, the swatting Ya outfielder, provides one of the side- show features of the East-West New Year day foot ball game at San Francisco by booting the pig- skin for a goal Co by Underwood & Underwood LA FOLLETTE STATUE SCUL Jo Davidson (right), noted American sioned by the State of Wisconsin to c: Robert M. La Follette, to be placed the work with Robert M. La Follette, jr., Davidson made conference. a special trip to NTERS POULTRY PUZZLE ted Polish breed of chicken i t hides it. M T her entries PTOR CONFERS WITH SON. n sculptor, who has been commis- reate the statue of the late Senato in the Capltol rotunda, confers on Senator from that State. Washingt. Paris for the World Photo SHOW. The head of this white ight where it ought to be, but the Kathryn Apgar exhibits the bird as one of 1 the poultry show in New York's Madison Square Garden. ide World Photos. TRANSOGEAN PHONE RACE IS STAGED BLOOM AGAIN ASKS - FORD FOR PROOFS AGCIDENT DELAYS GOOD WILL FLYERS (OSTEQPATHS WANT - VOIGE ¥ LICENSING Name of First Patron to Talk to England Is Kept Secret by Company. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 6.—The vic- tor in the race to be the first to pay for New York-London telephone serv- ice remained a secret of the telephone company today, not to be revealed except by the winner when_he is con- nected with London tomorrow morn- ing. Offic and Te the name « of the t a m company Betwe within honor o minute s of the American Telephone iph Co. maintained that the first commercial user tic phone was merely between the n d the patror n 30 and 40 persons applied ss than two minutes for the > first 825 T iness iming Marks Race. Supervisors wi corded the req in an effort iven first Noted sporting been timed mic stop wa >s re they ne who should ! e never it was were en- which were \ tickets and ipervisor—there were liately snapped calls za recorded or 1eld aloft five the the stop wat nd 30 ap eived private New meed tween V the elyn P. M British gen will o call York from al- al Tl flourishin from = fin 270 mir p.m.. New per min st in etti o be a service For the and 1 at $25 about ipn time tlon and promise n ndpoint a.m he tolls imount conside brea Othes With ervice. Crossings R pus < 1000 A.D. ‘hristopher commerelally raphy—1901 1919 1 5 Western 1866 reoni N omdr. Al hert Reed Airplane ohn Alec British Dirigible, non-stop—1919, -84, Comdr. G. }. Scott. Radiophone, one-way o at Brit non-stop- and Lieut 1919 A Capt W. Brown, British communica- ain hears United Radiophone, two-way —19! communica Radlophone, first mnews story— h 7, 1926, recejved by th lo‘??renmm fbbt;vm in | “Fhe | 1Pan-l\merican Flight Flag- ship Forced to Land—Maj. Dargue Slightly Hurt. ssociated Press. MALA CITY, January 6.— - the second time since the take-oft at San Antonio, Tex., on December 21, the United States Army airmen have had to call a temporary halt to thefr | 20.000-mile air jaunt over the pan- | American countri | The York, flagship of the squadron, which consists of five am- | phibian planes, made a forced landing A few minutes after taking the | at Aurora flying field yesterday New air the | | morning for the hop to San Salvador | and lost its landing gear. All the other planes, which returned here after the accident, will remain at i( uatemala City for a week or two | until repairs to the flagship can be | made, Only slight injuries on the were suffered by Maj. Herbert | Durgue, flight commander, and his relief pilot, Lieut. Ennis White 1, when they were forced to land he planes arri n Guatemala { City from Salina Mexico, on | Sunday afternoon was de. | cided to rest here | morning, | mala. " crowd | field farewell Arthur to the H o'clock « when it cabinet ministers and a s were at the flying shortly 9 o'clock to bid to 1" noa nd af the <aid few minutes the St. Louis | first plane to take the air, followed quickly by the four otk Af they circled over the city it was no ticed that the New York wobbly uddenly it came ground about two-thirds of | south of the aviation camp. MERLE THORPE TO SPEAK City Club to Hear “Competition" ¥ e was the to a mile Address Tomorrow. Merle Thorpe, editor of the Nation's Business, official publication of the United States Chamber of Commerce, will address the City Club luncheon forum tomorrow on he New petition.” at which time he will de scribe th een industries | themselv individuals. | Non-meir and their | associates will be admitted to the fo- rum because of the Lmportance of the subject, H. J. Odenthal, executive secretary of the club, has announced. The “open house” ruling will be in effect for the two following meetings also, Mr. Odenthal declares, when | William Burg, les engineer, talks on inufacturing Busines Builder nuary 14, and Swami B i was a bit | the | Com- | | warfare ) the streets with machine guns, the Chicago Police Department has just received a con City’s “best” are lined up here with the new weapons at their shoulder. INT FOR BANDIT FIGHTING. Taking a tip from the gangsters of the city, who have been waging rival ignment of these weapons. | | Some of the Wind | Wide World Photos Address to Inter-Racial Commission. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., January “The newspapers of e | the whole South can render an service to humanity if 1 their aid in condemning nd later in forcing the of the law to punish ti such action,” declared Alexande director of , Commission on Inter-Racial Co-op tion of lanta, in addressing | meeting of the Tennessce inter-ra committee here yes Dr. Alexand | tistics, explaining |in the countr in | double the re | ings includ. {and one negro woms | taking place in the South Less than one-ifth wi with criminal ault or attemy assault and many of the lynch came after the victims had been | quitted by courts | WEDS EX-MARCHIONES Jr., Tennes t B chinery guilty " of the num was aln hese 1y that 1926 ~ord. e char Col. James Monroe Love, | Fairfax, Va., Marries Abroad. LONDON, January 6 ®). mes Monroe Love, jr., U. S. tired, of Fairfax, Va., and Mr: win Raper, formerly the Marchio of Conyngham, today were marrie the Marlebone register office. The couple, whose engagement announced only vesterday, met on Riviera, whero Col. Love has a t Cap D'Antibe Mrs. Raper divorced her first ananda, Past Indlan philosopher, | band, the Marqquigs of Coyngham, in | copperheads of North ures on ‘“The Power of ©enoeny ' 1921, while her marriage-to Mr. Raper ndon, tration," January 21, Weg Atssolved In1625, PRESS URGED TO HELP Director Cites Lynching Figures in | ines. quoted lynching s both whites and blacks , most of them A, Ba v Deadly Snakes Are Sent to Philadelphia | From Zoo to Produce Antidote for Poison which hitherto have caused the heavi est death rate. Manufacture of this serum is a slow process, however, and it has not yet become instantly available. In the case of the more deadly reptiles, such ag cobras, administration within a few minutes is essential to save the pa- tient. Several boomslangs, deadly African and black tree snakes, have been sent in exchange 1o the Phila delphia z00 by the National Zoological Park here, and may result in the per. fection of a serum which will save hundreds of lives These poisonous sined in the Tangan: t Africa last Summer by the mithsonian-Chrysler_expedition, and | are believed to be the first brought alive to this country. The boomslang i one of the few snake specles known | [T T8HR ong of the most inter: whose venom ful antidote ) gjass”cage, divided into two compart- JIoL b obi el ments. 1In this way the attendants Working in Phil Sentlean clean out the cage without any L L L Bl lelan | gy pger merely by letting down a slide. Who has produced most of the serums | (it e’ incomeimee P, L e, nd whose work has rendered almost | (ST BO Circumstances, Dr. | Mann oihe Yenom of the mMoSt|,"get within striking distance of reptiles if the serum can be|them. 1f one of them took sick, he applied in time. Dr. Willinin M.|genniy wosld be ot 1o G athc Mann, superintendent of the Zoo, vis: | bl 4o AISnARE o Tt the ited Dr. Ameral last week, and was | Four | green 6 and hey nob ma- Lose Dr. the era the cial reptiles were ob ka province of boomslangs have been re- tained at the Zoo here, but have not ‘et been placed on exhibition. The Egyptian cobras, obtained by the ex- pedition, form one of the most inter nber 108 nch. ged sted ingzs ac S. of Col : | risk of getting him out of the cage so highly impressed with the ,progress | =% G ECT RS, QI OUL O | with ‘which poison after polson is be- | Hm‘:l:-‘{nqum;m. 4 i i St e | therto meral has had no op- | I portunity to work with boomslangs, CANADA TO GET RUSSIANS iwhich are entirely African reptile: s i and get in their deadly work among | e | the negro hunters who venture into,Seventy Families on Way There, production of the But Big Influx Is Denied. ry to get some of { the venom from the snake itself. This| LONDON, January 6 (#).—Seventy | then is diluted to the proper propor- [ Russian famifies, who have arrived | tions and shot into the blood stream Te- [ of the patient. The venom of one spe- 1d- | cles \\'ll'! not produce a serum effective | from Libau, the Baltic port of Latvia, ness | against another spectes. | are, the Daily Mail says, the fore- d at| With the boomslangs in Philadel- | yunners of thousands of other Rus- | phia, Dr. Ameral will be able to ob-|gjan families which will leave Russia was | tain plenty of the poison from their | ¢o settla in Cana during the Spring, the | fangs for his experiments. He already | —— lla oduced rerum which nuilify the' OTTAWA, Ontario, Ja 6 (4. om all the South Americ tobert Forke, minister of immig d from the rattlesnakes and | tion, said vesterday that no offieial has " been given for hus ainst 4he bite efthe D ROWEPapOrs in London on the steamer Baltriger America. He | approval heavy ! motor of the car §as still running and also has devised a serum effective|immigration from Russia, as reported in gear, the , nan's feot holding DAVIS ADMITS SECRET ARMY LETTERS TO LORD Says Confidential Notes Protested Against Proposed Reductions in Appropriations. Under questioning at a House mili tary committee hearing yesterday, Secretary Davis disclosed that he had written two ‘“confidential” letters to | Director Lord of the bud < against reductions suggested in A appropriations for the next fiscal y He said the letters referred to cuts in | the enlisted personnel and he promised 'nd them to the committe n. Connor, deputy c , urging that Congress determine a minimum’ size for the Army, sai if this were done it would be ¢ for the budget to recommend to keep the Army up to that | limit. Conner estimated that pay and sub- sistence figure r pmmended by the budget for the next fiscal year would have to be increased by $2,664,797 it the Army is to be maintained at 118,- 1000 men.” Because of a lack of funds, | | the Army’s enlisted strength, he said, | is about 8,000 men less than- that in recent years. PAINTER-FFOUND SHOT. Body Discovered in Car With En- gine Running and in Gear. | 1 KINSTON, N. C., January 6 (#).— Oscar Stone, a painter of High Point, N. ., was found dead in his auto mobile on a highway near here yester- | day with a shotgun wonnd in his right lung. A shgggun was found in ths road near th car, and a small quantity of whisk® and a felt hat, po- | lice said, were fofind in the ca When' the b8y was found, | J | the - om0 |Christ;ar. Science Practition- | trict. and Washington, and her profession as she announced proudly. tific internal bath cleanses the body ers Aiso Ask Exemption From Proposed Law. Assured representation of paths on the proposed medical licens- ing board and a further provisi which would exempt Chr Science practitioners from its juris- diction were asked yesterday after- noon at a hearing before a subcom mittee of the Senate District commit- tee on a bill introduced by Senator Copeland to regulate the practice of medicine and midwifery in the Dis- osteo- a The bill would force every one in- tending to practice any of the vari. ous schools of healing here to pa a rigid examination in the funda- mentals of the medical science, but would exempt those who have been two vears in active practice. The examining board proposed in the bill would be composed of six doctors, one lawyer, one educator and one other person 35 Osteopaths Here. Dr. C. D. Osteopathic representative Swope of the District ociation asked that a of each of the chief schools of healing have a representa tive on this board. He told Senator Copeland, who presided, that there now are about 3 cticing osteopath: here. It was brought out that ther are about 1,200 doctors of medicine, in actual practice in the city. A diversion was afforded caring by Susan L. Davis, address as Alabama, the zave York at who New practitioner of a school of healing which treats the body only by internal baths. Has Medical Backing. “I have had the honor of restoring | to health the greatest of Senators,” ‘““This scien- of all poisons. I even have treated friends of Senator Copeland." “Most of my friends need i the Senator. Senator Copeland sald he thought there would be no objection to in corporating in the bill a section which would exempt practitioners of healing by religlous methods, thus satisfying the ‘Christian Seience viewpoint, It was announced that the bill had the approval of the District Medical Society. ————e BLUEGE IS SIGNED. Third Baseman in Line With Na- tionals for New Season. Oswald Bluege is the latest of the ! Nationals to get in line for service ! next season, the third haseman having | signed a one-year contract on a visit to Pr_e::em. Clark C. Griffith at the - DEIgA club today, éha Says Request for Evidence on “Jews’ Federal Reserve Control”” Was Evaded. By the Associated Press. Dissatisfied with a reply to his first letter, Representative Sol Bloom of New York renewed his demand upon Henry Ford today in a second com- munication to substantiate the charge | made in his publication, the Dearborn Independent, that the Federal Reserve s is controlled by the interna: tional Jew- W. J. Cameron of tha Dearborn edi- torial staff, in reply to the first lette to Mr. Ford, said: “This is December say that your letter of has been received and its contents noted. We thoroughty agree with you that ‘our Govern ment's finances should be entirely free from any vestige of alien domina- tion, regardiess of individualities, of race, countr creed, group or a other affi ions. ks 1S IS not an answer to my letter; still less an answer from you.” Bloom said in his letter today. ‘“While ap- preciating Mr. Cameron’s courtesy, what 1 asked for is your proof that the Federal Reserve system is inter- nationally controlled, as you charge. “T am aware that the Dearborn In- dependent is published under your auspices, but it is quite without stand ing except as your mouthpiece. I am aware also that much of the printed matter which appears with your os tensible indorsement is quite new to you when officially called to your at- tention. ““Unless a publicity agent has take the liberty of committing you to a serting what you know nothing about, you did make this- charge. You say. too, that you have evidence to sub- stantiate it. You seem reluctant to place such evidence before Congress In any event, I am determined not to let your charge drop until it is sub stantlated or d - NID SOCIETY TO MEET. Entertainment to Follow Session at St. Mark’ The St. Mark's Aid So duct its first meeting of the new year at 8 o'clock tonight, when an enter- talnment will follow a short business session in the St. Mark’s new parish hall, Third and A streets southeast. The program will include meono- logues by Miss KElizabeth Bryant, dances by Thomas Coiner and Miss Eleanore Wilson, and pantomimes by Miss Marion Gardiner and Miss Beryl Edmiston; accompanigd by Miss Pau line Roth. A play~ “Not Such Goose,” will be given alco, in which the s will include Miss ¥ ht. Miss Clara Wheelock nd Miss Lois Diely, James Madison and Howard E. Wilson, jr. Rev. Willlam H. Pettus, rector o8 ety will con- Ry