Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1927, Page 17

BRITISH MARINES EMBARK FOR SERV )} Marines boarding a transport at Portsmouth, England, for the long v craft are now carrying a force of 20,000 soldiers to Shanghai, the inter question whether some of the force should not be diverted to the British-governed cities of Hongkong and 192 THE EVENI G _STAR W ASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 3 2 IN CHIN] Weihalwei, pointing out that Shanghai is not a purely Bri PIANIST INDULGES FAVORITE HOBBY. pianist, finds pleasure during_ his leisure moments in the tasks of the machinist. He is shown here in the machine shop of her, at the latter’s Merion, Pa W. Bok, the pub) pianist’s recent visit. Joset Hofmann, famous friend, Edward home, during the Wide World Photos A large contingent of the Royal age to Chir tional Although British naval pun: ed the Mrs. Howard Sutherland, wife of the alien property custodian, who is one of the committee in charge of arrangements for the Wakefield Memorial Association’s dinner at the Mayflower Hotel Febryary 11. ted the camp yester conditions there. Cheatham lend a hand in ters at Camp Meade, Md. ay to get a first-hand view of the ho ht by Hdrris & retary. NAL CLUB ELECTS n ent, enlivened the election of officers yesterday by wives of § Some of those elected were, left to right: Garrett, second vice president; Mrs. M. Clyde Kelly, first vice pre: sident; Mrs. James S. Parker, recording secretary, and Mrs membership of the club, “W SLATE OF OFFICERS. Col W Only one contest, involving the office enators and Representatives Mrs. Carl E. Mapes, treas- dent; Mrs. Peter G. . W. Chalmers, corresponding sec- ight by Underwood & Underwood. BAGS LIMIT ON_LAST DAY, William County, Va. W. F. hibits his bag of 15 quail and 25 ducks, the law’ down Monday, the last day of the hunting season. i legal share of the game birds in the Potomac marshes of Prince Swaringen, local sportsman, ex- limit, which he brought The gunner got ‘Washington Star Photo. Elsie Muller, who won the national woman's skating championship at the national tournament at Detroit. She won the 220-yard, quarter-mile, half-mile and mile races. pyright by P. & A Photos. WINS SEPARATION at New York. FROM CARTOONIST. Fisher, the former Countess de Beaumont, who has just been awarded a decree of separation from the well known creator of “Mutt and Jeff.” The camera records Mrs. Fisher’s smile just after the decree was issued Mrs. Harry C. (Bud) Copyright by P. & A. Photos. ~ BALLOT SFIZURE PROCEDURE FIXED Agreement for Court Order to Get Pittsburgh Boxes Is Reached Upon. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Pa., February 3.— Agreement to obtain a court order for seizure of 1,400 Allegheny County ballot boxes for the United States Senate campaign funds committee was reached vesterday by representa tives of the Senate and officials of the county. The boxes, containing ballots of the | November election, together with other election records, will be used by the committee in its investigation of | the senatorial contest between W. S. Vare, Republican, and W. B. Wilson, Democrat. The court will be asked today to order aldermen and justices of the peace to deliver the boxes in their custody to the county building, where they will be sealed, turned over to the Senate representatives and shipped to Washington. Another court order to be asked would direct county offic to turn over other election recory County officials pledged their co-opera- tion in gathering the boxes and other data David 3 arms, gave a nces on his arrival here yesterday that six ballot boxes now held by District Attorney Samuel H. Gardner as e cution of alleged election frauds would not be disturbed pending dis; of the criminal charges against persons under indictment. One ba box sought in the recent grand Investigation has not been located en all the ballot boxes have been ed they will be shipped hington in bageage c The e agents believed two cars would rds 30 lot jury n: be required for ail the r DINNER TO BOOST DRIVE FOR COLUMBIA HOSPITAL Noted Speakers to Aid Campaign to Raise $150,000 for Institution. e §150,000 campaign of Columbia Hospital will enter intensive this evening at the its final tage a dinner ard I1. Richardson of Johns Tiopkins University will be the y pal speaker. In addition to abou team members, a 1 number of citi ®ns, members of tie citizens' mittee, will attend. The campaign will close Monday, February 14 Gen, John A Bishop Freema dresses will be made by Dr. J Bovee, James P. Blair, a member the hospital board of directors mer patient of the institution and Rabbi Abram Simon, president of the hospital. More than 200 team members, cap tains and division leaders met at Willard yesterday afternoon, when as signments were This wi first meeting of m members since the opening of the campaign. Jo Ad W of will ask grace idence in the prose- | position | | out to | nston will preside. | a for- ! the | the | Doyle Co-worker Arrives to Prove There Are Fairies By the Associated Press. ‘ IW YORK, = Bringing a wide assortment of scientific apparatus, E. L. Gardner of London arrived on the France | with the one purpose of proving | there are faries. He is secretary of the English | and a co- | Sir Arthur Conan 1 lantern slides of | Gardner said, were i o0f: with . Many 'y gambol among his COMMITTEE REPORTS | APPROPRIATION BILL | Departmental Measure Is Boosted | $817,625 by Upper House Group. After adding the net amou $817,625 above the House figure | Senate .appropriations committee yes- te afternoon reported out the annual appropriation bill for the De- partments of State. Justice, Commerc and Labor, carrying a total of $84.- 343,015, The allotment for merce was increase addition to t also added ,725 for air navi facilities. Another Senate ing 000 to be used by the Bur s for the investigation of aircraft in com- by In enate committee ries in the Patent Office reased by $60,000. The only reduction Senate committee was the striking of $1,063,000 which wus in fhe bill for the production of helium g including the purchase of land co taining helium gas In reporting the measure, Senatc Jones of Washington, announced he would endeavor to call up the bill for ion in Senate tomorrow PLAN ANNUAL DINNER. were made by the West Point Alumni to Commemo- rate Founding of Academy. The Washington section of the As. sociation of Gradu the United tes Military A will hold its next annual dinner at the Hotel, rch 19, and ther memorate the 125th anniv the founding of the West Poi tution. Maj. Gen. C. McK 1 officer of the Army, who irman of the Washing sociation, has appointed the following committee to make the ne rangements: Lieut. Col. Ernest Peek and Majs. C. H. Danielson, Murray and k. L. Gruber. On the same date other alumni herings will be held in many other of the United States and in- sular possessions to observe the anni versary. wdemy m ary of t insti altzman. D M. Church Has Own Forest. HARRISBURG, Pa., Februar (P).—The Moravian Church at Naz reth has s own artificially prop: zated forest, comprising 150,000 tree. Willard | ssary ar- | all set out in the past 10 yea This vear’s budget <calls for @ planting of 3,500 secdli v Naval Academ, under the wat ing inte hful eye ’s varsity crew their fi ye of the coach reollegiate races looked good AKE FIRST WORKOUT IN OP t opportunity for a workout on t n the first workout. d weather yest v gave aspirants for the U re shown here at the candidates also took a workout in the regular eight-oared shells. The Middies’ prospects for Copyright by P. & A. Photos. SCRIPPS’ SON NAMED IN $6,000,000 ACTION Sister-in-Law Seeks Accounting on Profits of Papers Controlled by Late Publisher. By the Associated F LOS ANGELES, February Paine Scripps of ( W. Seripps, paper publisher, fendant in a su v for $6,000,000 The action brought by Josephine 8. Scripps of San Di sister-in-law, who is seekin, counting of the profits of papers controlled by the elde Mrs. Scripps s t Seripps, .a brotk who at one tin newsp: The to have increment inder his n Rol 1 8¢ for the Robert sinnati, son of the millionaire news was made the n Federal Court heré recovery of more than late was M ), h an’ ac new sripps. e widow of Jumes G. of the defendant > managed his father’s 4 rers., based whereby her an all husband w suit is on the value agement 1DDS 15 executor e in of properties ind trus tec ALE GdES BACKVTO DUBLIN| 7,000 Cq Had Been Held pecting Dry Law Change. NEW YORK, #).~ Seven thousand nd which have been stored in a New York bonded warehouse for the last eigh ars while the owners in vain aw: 1 modification of the Volstead yesterday was ordered sent back t Ireland. It will be sent on the Whit Star liner Baltic Saturday, and is des tined to serve as refreshment for the inhabitants of Dublin. The ale was sent here before the ad ses Ex- February ses of ale vent of prohibition by the'owners, E.'alien and J. Burke, Ltd., case the liquor law should be modified. de- | received i percentage of the | | and was kept in Treasury’s plt{pnsul for | founa | reiterated | pos: Owner of B;llions offiéerms install&". His Collection in Chicago Laboratory By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 3.—Dr. Erne: famous bacteriologist of claims to have one of the collections of living germs anywhere in the world. He this claim today he completed installing in a special laboratory at Rush Medical Colleg of the niversi of Chicago enough illions and billions of them a half hundred epidemics id_Dr. Pribram, “there o of that. The germs will mitted to escap In fact, being a scourge to man- are destined to be a om them we are Pribram, Vien largest instead of Kkind the ing, for | are being studied i cure of the vould ake our serums for the very diseases which the germs spread if they had a chance. The collection includes the germs of Asiatic cholera, typhoid, typhus, rysentery, pneumonia, tuberculosis and other diseases which have been the authors of human tragedy. They all live and breathe in carefully guarded test tubes, the doctor said. « ms, such as were used in rid- ing the Vienna opera house of its 1t plague, but which cannot harm human beings, are included in the collection. Other micro-organisms the laboratory in ate some of the by curing the elimi rming an effort to hazards of diseases of p 'MILLS TO RETAIN SEAT IN HOUSE FOR PRESENT | New Undersecretary of State Re- | calls Resignation Sent to Gov. Smith. tative Ogden L, whose Mills of tion to be sury has Repre New York, Underseeret of been confirmed by to retain his House s present. i Although he announced that he had mailed his re Gov. Smith, he sald late to the White House, hanged his mind he resignation. After his conference with the Presi- at, Mills sald he would divide his ttention between duties at the Trea ry and looking after certain adminis- rative measures at th- Capitol. He is a member of the House ways ind means committee, and this session 1s been particularly interested in property legisiation and the replacement ot medicinal whisky. nation to after a visit that he had and had recalled of the supply, TINNEY GRANTED RELIEF IN ALIMONY PAYMENTS Comedian Gets Three-Month Re- lease, but Must Pay Wife Arreags. N. Y., February comedian, 3 ank Tinney been relieved for a period of three months from paying $200 a week alimony to his wife, Mrs. Edna Davenport Tin- ney. Supreme Court Justice Druhan’s order, which became known yester- ay, ' provides, however, that the comedian must pay the eleven weeks’ alimony now -in arrears. Tinney is in a Philadelphia hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown. In making the application, counsel for Tinney presented an affidavit from a doctor stating financial relief would speed the comedian’s recovery. has Hawaii's highest mountain peaks had snow this Winter for the first time in two years. |SENATOR KING’S PLEA | DELAYS RADIO CONTROL | Objections to “Hoover Tinge” and Other Provisions Cause Post- ponement of Action. | A snag was struck in the Senate Tuesday when Senator Dill sought to ration of the new radio- control measure, already passed by the House, and Senator King askéd for delay on the conference report be- ause of objections to certain provi sions in the bill. The objections were once, and Senator K nation on the floor was that he and several other Senators opposed the bill as now written and would discuss it later. Senator Kin obtain consid not aired s only e at pla- later said that he did I not like the “Hoover tinge” to the measure, referring to the ct that the Federal Radio Commission’s juris- on to the Secretary of ter one year. Neither did the *“monopolistic _tendencies’ bill nor the possibility of a | on listeners in the form of ‘a i special receiving device such as was described in the House when the bill { was up for pas: e there. But Senator King recognized the | urgent need for some form of radio legislation, and he agreed that supple- mental legislation may obviate “biz interest” monopoly of broadcasting or the levying of a listening fee, as well as “Hoover control.” On the latter score he was particularly emphatic. RADIO CLUB TO DINE. The Washington Radio Club wiil give a dinner at the City Club tonight in honor of A. A. Herbert, treasurer of the American Radio Relay Le‘g\i. S mmer he like lin the | char, The guests will include Dr. A. Taylor e Naval Research Laboi tory, D. Terrell, chief radio super- visor offthe Department of Commerce, and DgfEugene C. Woodruff of Pen:, sylvanje State College. Vienna Gets Mail As Striking Postal Employes Return By th: Assciated Press. VIE February 3.—After striking yesterday because a post office employe failed to remove his hat in the presence of the post- master in the Vienna district, the men returned to wo The postmaster had reprimanded the employe for carelessnes, and his fellow workers, taking offense called @ ral strike of postmen an driver s ent na w ely without mail LIONS PLAN ANNUAL DONATION TO CHARITY Club Approves $5,000 Fund as 1 Yearly Share in Local | the total amount is to be u | ing the milk bill, this year, for the Work. The Lions Club yesterday, at { luncheon in the Mayflower Hotel, | definitely decided to contribute $5,000 | each year toward charitable purpo: | in line with its program of increased activities for civic improvement. The sum of $3,120 was pledged the luncheon by the 47 members present, leaving nearly an equal number of in- dividual club members yet to pledge contributions. The sum of $5,000 to be contributed was decided upon by the executive committee, which the club member had authorized to map out a prog | for increased activities, and was proved by the membership at the luncheon.” Approximately $2,000 of d in pay- m ap- Washington Home for Children, Fifteenth street between R and S s s. The club members were in- formed of the executive committee! decision to raise the $5,000 by Roger on mittee, who urged suport of its ac- tion Maj. Gen. i chief of staff, U. S. A., delivered a brief address, in which he told of the importance of every one working for the general betterment of humanity A program of mus rendered by the Sylvan Trio, Deborah Lawson, Stanley Steven: Mrs, Stella Eames Nelson, contralto, Mrs. Stevens also played the accom- paniment. Thomas W. Brahany, president of the club, presided. FISH BRINGS DEATH. Man Suffocated When Catch Slips Down His Throat. WAILUKU, Maui, T. H., February 3 (#).—A four-inch live fish yesterday caused the death of Peter Paaina, a fisherman. Paaina held the fish in his mouth while he removed a hook. As he was about to put his catch into a basket the fish gave a convulsive flip and slipped down Paaina’s throat, lodging in his windpipe and suffocating him. RIS Charles P. Summe Hawail's territorial wealth has in- creased $100,000,000 in the past three years. J. Whiteford, a member of the com-| MINERS STAND PAT ACANST WAGE o1 i Conference ‘Names Commit- 1 tee to Negotiate New Agree- | ment and Adjourns. By th INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., February 3. —Declari against a reduction in | wages for the bituminous coal miners, | the United Mine Workers of America | vesterday adjourned its biennial con- vention ter empowering a central competitive field scale committee to negotiate for a mew contract. The | convention had been in session since January 5. This committee meets with the operators of Illinois, Indiana, | Ohio and western Pennsylvania at Miami, Fia., February 14. The report of convention scale committee, which became the instruc- | tions of the delegates, representing 500,000 miners, when they adopted it without change, gives the miners’ rep- | re ives broad latitude in making an agreement. | Wage Minimum Fixed. They are not to go under the wage | fixed by the Jacksonville agreement of three years ago, which expires | March 31. { In addition to the 35 members of the scale committee—eight from each State of the central field and the union president, vice president and secretary—there will also'go to Miami three representatives from each of the 29 districts outside the central and the 20 members of the executive board. | A final tilt between John L. Le president, and his chief opponent, John Brophy of Clearfield, Pa., presi- dent of district occurred during the wage de Brophy had urged the convention to instruct the le committee to insist that any contract govern non-union property of companies signing for their union mines wis this ridiculed d for re erted ding a of port, which said |more than 70 per cent of soft coal mined by non-union workmen. o miners at this convention took the final steps in a campaign of sev- eral y to elimi radicalism from ‘their ranks. onstitution was amended, giving executive board power to expel any member | affiliated with the Communist party. ‘ PLAN “SALVATION NAVY.” |Army Will Conduct Mariners' League for Seame:. W YORK, February 3 () tion A is to become a “sal n navy well. Creation “of a mariners’ league as a new activity for the purpose of ex- tending the religious influence and social and educational advantages of the army to mariners throughout the wo:ld was announced yesterday by Evangeline Booth. Roald Amundsen is its first honorary miember. The plan ccntemplates that some of the large vessels will have their own corps, holding regular evening meet- ings on board similar to the street meetings ashore, and providing advice and material aid for any member of e crew in need. Krection of sea- en’s homes in the principal seaports Iso is provided as the plan develops.