Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1927, Page 5

~ \ \ COPRSALEEED DVTRIPISBARED Copy of Letter Said to Have ‘ Been Written by Judge Read at Hearing. By the Associated Press. A certified copy of a letter dated November 17, 1926, purporting to have n sent by Federal Judge Frank Cooper of New York to R. Q. Mer- Fick, a prohibition agent, in which was outlined a plan to entrap boot- Seggers, was read today before the House 'judiciary committee, investi- gating impeachment charges against the judge. 1 The copy wa$ sworn to as a dupli-| fate of the original letter by Leo A. TRegan of the Buffalo prohibition of- fice. The original has disappeared. After advising Merrick that 1t had een impossible to get the “master fminds” of the bootlegging game in horthern New York, the letter sald hat some unusual procedure must e adopted. Suggestion of Procedure. i “If you have a couple of trust- worthy, keen and resourceful Representative Brooks Fletcher men in your service,” the lette il Kpeakt o rasticaliTayaticion “you could get 2 number of these|g g'clock, in assembly hall of Foundr: ellows, if they go about it in the 3. 1. Church. Mrs, iMletcher will sing. Tight way e “There are several things which | they could do to go about it in the| The Parish Aid Society of Ascension yight way. There are several things | Church will have a card benefit party, “which they can do to get into thej vurrent of the hootlegging activities. They could come to Albany and by hanging around the Hampton Hotel, | or the Schlitz Fotel, they could get Bn touch with local people who want womebody to go to the north coun- ry, to get the ale and beer, etc., and bring it to Albany, and the Albany people would tell them where to g0 fin Clinton County to get the stuff. “I have no doubt the local people svould“provide the automobile. They could go to Clinton County and go where these local people send them &nd get in touch with the proprietors of these places and make their buy Bnd come away. : “If they could be arrested it would | Mot hurt anything, but perhaps would make it better for their future activi- ties. Other Steps Suggested. “They could also go directly to Plattsburg and vicinity and hang around and easily get in-touch with the dealers. I am told vou can go into certain lunchrooms in Plattsburg, Champlain and Rouses Point and, if you come up with an automobile, you will be solicited to buy a load to take back. It might be well for them to drive up in an automobile rather than 10 g0 up without the automobile.” The letter explained that if the agents were arrested, they would be released on Judge Cooper’s orders. Representative Laguardia, Repub- lican, New York, who seeks the Judge’s impeachment, contended that this letter definitely implicated Judge Cooper in an illegal plan to trap liquor law violators. One of the first of the new witnesses called was Leo . Breed, assistant United States dis- trict attorney at Syracuse, whose | office is investigating the disappear- ance from Judge Cooper’s files of let- ters said to have a bearing on the| impeachment case. Chairman Graham said the commit- tee had decided to permit Laguardia to go more broadly into his charges with the understanding that the hear- ing would be concluded when his latest witnesses had been heard. MOLLER TO APPEAR AGAIN AT INQUIRY INTO SIGNAL RIGHTS (Continued from First Page.) i traffic lights from the Crouse Hinds Co., by experts at the Bureau of Btandards. High School Probe Next. Mr. Lockwood, in his testimony, stated that his connection with Col. 1. C. Moller, who was suspended from his post as trafic engineer of the District, Thursday, was limited to his seeking Col. Moller's approval for certain steps in the installation of the traffic lights. Before today’s session opened the committee went into executive ses- gion for approximately 40 minutes, during which time it was decided to break off further investigation into the traffic lights after today and open up on the Western High School situa- l tion. Representatives Hammer of North Carolina, Houston of Delaware, and Gilbert of Kentucky, attended the session today. 1 Says Pepco Kept Check. Mr. Lockwood told the committee | that whenever he wanted to get a light for installation he simply went to the storehouse and got it without any one from the City Government being there to check up on it or give it'to him. He sald he just opened up packages and took out the material and that as far as he knew, neither the District nor the Potomac Power Co. kept any check on the materials used for installution as part of the { traffic light system. Concluding his testimony. however, he sald the Potomac Power Co. kept a strict check op whatever of iheir material was i Prof. {will meet Wednesday, 8 p.m., in the 1 boardroom of District Bullding. in the purchase and installation of Washington's traffic signals the Com- missioners decided today to take no further action against the officials in. volved until the investigation is com- pleted. The Commissioners alsc decided to defer awarding the contract for 630 additional traffic lights in addition to trol switches on which bids were opened February 12. It had been planned to award the contract for this equipment the latter part of last week or early this week. At the time of his suspension Traflic Engineer 1. C. Moller was examining the seven bids recefved to determine the low bidder The Commissioners promise that they will fix responsibility and take whatever action necessary in the public interest when the time is pro- pitious. Besides upsetting the Commission- ers, the investigation also has slowed down activities of the municipal gov- ernment to some extent. The Commis- sioners are spending most of their {time attending the hearings before the committee, while official papers which demand their attention accum- ulate on their desks. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Mid-City Citizens' Association will meet, 8 o'clock, in Thomson School. Miss Mabel L. Loftus, soprano, and Mrs. R. J. Jeffries, planist, will give a program. The annual dance for the benefit of Holy Rosary Church will be given, 8 o'clock, at Catholic Community Hall, Sixth and E streets. 8 o'clock, at Hamliton Hotel. Daughters of Isabella will meet at Washington Club, 8 o’'clock. The annual Mount Holyoke dinner will be given, 6:30 o'clock, at club- house of the American Association of University Women. Dr. Willlam Mann will give an illustrated lecture on the recent Smithsonian-Chrysler expedi- tion to Africa. The Takoma Horticultural Club w(ll‘ meet, § o'clock, in Takoma Park Li- brary. Dr. P. H. Dorsett, Department of Agriculture, will give an illustrated talk on his recent explorations in China. West End W. C. T. U. will meet, 8 o'clock, at Union Methodist Episcopal Church. Miss Rhodes will speak. The American Federation of Labor | will have a banquet, T o'clock, at the Hamilton Hotel. The Vermont State Association of the District will meet, 8 o’clock, at the Hotel Continental. Dr. Edgar T. Wherry will spealk of “The Wild Flow- ers of the District of Columbia.” The Marietta College Alumni Club of Washington will hold its annual meeting tonight at the Army and Navy Club. Judge William W. Dyar is president of the local group. Vice President Dawes is a graduate, class '84. Edward S. Parsons, president of Marietta College, and Prof. Winston C. Gerrish of the faculty, will attend. Trinity. Chapte: 33, 0. E. S, will have a card par :15 o'clock, at the Lee House. FUTURE. | The Business Women's Council will | meet tomorrow, 8 p.m., at the Church of the Covenant. Bible class, 6:45 to 7:15 o'clock. Program, 8. Dr. E. T. Wherry will speak of “Wild Flowers | and Their Cultivation.” Public invited. Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, profes- sor of historical sociology at Smith's College, will speak at Western High School tomorow afternoon at 3:45 o'clock. The West Virginia Society will meet Wedneaday, 8 p.m., at Fourteenth and Kenyon streets. Program, refresh- wments and dancing. ° Washington Chapter, American So- clety for Steel Treating, will hold a joint Meeting with the Washington Chemical Soclety and the Washington Academy of Science Friday, 8 p.m,, in assembly hall of the Cosmos Club. Cecil H. Desch, University of speak of “The 0. 8 Sheffield, England, will Growth of Crystals.” The Devonshire Downs Citizens’ Association will meet tomorrow, 8 p.m., at the residence of Col. and Mrs. Cheseldine, 3812 Van Ness street. President Yaden of Federation of Citizens’ Associations will speak. 36 relay stations and 18 manual con- EVENING SUNSHUE 1S BLUE, BUREAU DECLARES | Neither White Nor Red, as Popularly Believed, Weather Observer Says. The sun red to an ol blue. It would appear a blue disk in a black sky to a human being stand- ing on the moon. The Weather Bureau has just sued a statement explaining the rea son for its appearance to an observer standing beneath the earth’s blanket lnf air. ~ The atmospheric gases, ac- cording to this explanation, scatter most of the ray the violet end which appears white or Tver on earth, really is is- ys in of the sun's spectrum so that the sky appears blue instead of the sun. Text of Explanation. The text of the explanation fol For a long time the Weather Bu- reau has been measuring the intensity of the radiant or heat energy received from the sun at a few of its stations. From these measurements and the value of the solar constant, or the in- tensity of solar energy outside the earth’s atinosphere, the losses suf- fered by the s s in ceming through the es comes knewn. cipal th mosphere e There are three prin- . namely, absorp- tion 1 of the atmosphere, principally water vapor; scattering by these gases, and scattering by the solid particles, or dust, n the atmos- phere. The rays scattered are not all lost to the earth, for some of them come to us as diffuse radiation from the sky. The intensity of this diffuse radiation is also measured by the Weather Bureau and is a considerable percentage on the whole. Effect of High Temperature. “On account of its very high tem- perature—about 6,000 degrees on the absolute scale—the sun would appear blue in color if its rays suffered no loss in our atmosphere. But the at- mospheric gases scatter most of the rays in the violet end of the spectrum, In consequence the sky is blue and the sun is white, or even red, when viewed near the horizon through a hazy sky. “It seems to be well established that short-wave or violet light plays an_important part in the prevension and cure of certain diseases. Hence the great importance of a more de- tailed study of sunlight. At sea level comparatively little radiation of the short-wave length, which bi consider the most potent germicide, is found in direcs. sunzhi, while sky- light i {he sky is free from smoke and dust, is comparatively rich im ultra-violet. ONE-ARMED VETERAN " SAVES FOUR AT FIRE Carries Two Children From Danger as Flames Do $100,000 Damage in Mason Town, Pa. By the Associated Press. MASON TOWN, Pa., February 28.— Unaided, Joe Rozzi, a onearmed World War veteran, rescued four per- sons during a fire here last night which destroyed one building and badly damaged another, entailing a TAR, WASHINGTON, President Coolidge has not sald defi- nitels when he will move to 15 Dupont circle, which will be the tem- porary White House during the period the Executlve Mansion is un- dergoing extensive repairs, but his associates about the executive office are of the opinion that he may de cide to move within the next day or so. For several days the President has | indicated that he would prefer to move just as soon as possible, and, in order “that everything might be in readiness in the event he makes a decision suddenly, the President’s as- sistants today started transferring ce tain furnishings and personal effects President’s Umbrella and Coat Hangers Are Mov.ecl to Temporary White House | D. 3 from the White Ilouse to the tempo- rary home on-Dupont Circle. Among the things that were moved today were included the White House dishes and crockery and a quantity of table linen as well as a number of books, several bokcases and one of the President’s favorite easy chairs. Among the personal effects were an umbrella and a half dozen coat hang- ers. It is understood that the bed linen and some of the White House | silver will be transferred tomorrow. The temporary White House is prac- ticaily in readiness for immedlate oc- cupancy. The special telephone wires connecting it with the executive office will be in working order by tomorrow. cember 11, 1921, was “arranged W ith- out competition of any kind. Drainage Danger Eliminated. The opinion also sald that danger of dralnage at Elk Hills had been eliminated by agreement between the United States and oil companies op- erating in the vicinity that no drill- ing should be done by either except x months’ notice to the other. he District Court ided that the contracts and leas e obtain- ed by corruption and fraud,” continu- ed the opinion. “We have considered the evidence, and we are satisfied that the findings as to the matters of fact here controverted are fully s ned, except the statement that Denby sign- ed the contracts and leases under mis- apprehension and without full knowl- edge of the contents of the docu- ments. As to that the record requires an opposite finding. Under the act of June 4, 1920, it was his official duty to administer the oil reserve: not called as a witness, and it is not to be assumed that he was without knowledge of the disposition to be made of them or of the means em- ployed to get storage facilities and fuel oil for the Navy. “He is presumed to have had knowl- edge of what he signed; there are direct evidence and proven cireum- stances to show that he had. But the evidence sustains the finding that he took no active part in the negotiations, and that Fall, acting col- lusively with Doheny, dominated the making of the contracts and leases.” Were Corruptly Secured. The court further declared that the record showed clearly ‘“‘that the in- terest and influence of Fall as well as se- the contracts and leases; * that the consummation of the trans. action was brought about by means of collusion and corrupt conspiracy be- tween him and Doheny * ot “The whole transaction was tainted with corruption. It was not necessary to show that the money transaction between Doheny and Fall constituted bribery as defined in the criminal code or that Fall was financially in- terested in the transaction or that the United ‘States suffered or was liable to suffer any financial loss or disad- vantage as a result of the contracts and leases. It is enough that these companies sought and corruptly ob- tained Fall's dominating influence in furtherance of the venture. “It is clear that at the instance of Doheny, Fall so favored the making of these contracts and leases that it was impossible for him lovally or fafthfully to serve the interests of the United States. loss of $100,000. The fire started {n a restaurant from an overheated steam table and spread to the adjoining Honoroff Building, a two-story frame business block. When, the fire was discovered the Honoroft Building was in flames and occupants of apartments in one end of the structure were cut off from stairways. Rozzi, who left his right arm in France, dashed through the flames and returned a short time later carry- ing two young children of Dr. and Mrs. B. G. Hetrick under his left arm. Then he returned and directed the physician and his wife to safety. & ESRP o 5 June Dedicated to Hymen. From the Adventure Magazine. The first people to adopt the month of June as sacred to Hymen, the god Lincoln Post, G. R., will meet ;}I;?nesday, 2 pm, Grand Army The Clinical Club of Washington will give its monthly banquet tomor- row, 7:30 p.m., at the University Club. Scientific papers will be presented by Dr. Louis B. Castell and Dr. Oliver C. Cox. The D. C. Public School Associatfon in Sub- jects for discussion: “Beautification of School Grounds” and “Report on Nor- mal Schools.” All citizens Interested are welcome. Welch Americans who form the St. David's Society will give their annual banquet tomorrow, 6:30 p.m., at the Roosevelt Hotel. Representative Thomas A. Jenkins of Ohio will speak. The Society of Colonial Wars of thé District will meet tomorrow, 8:30 p.m., at the Willard Hotel. Dr. George E. MacLean of the American Univer- sity Union of London will speak of “American Colonial Literature.” d. “R. B. Patterson, superintendent of the distribution department of the Potomac Electric Power Co., the next Wwitness to be sworn, told the commit- @b that before the installation of the 1ights was made a general conference had been held, at which Electrical tneer Hadley, Traffic Director § Eldridge and Col. Moller were present, representing the city. > The questioning was evidently cen- about_establishing whether the t made a check-up at all on the astallation of lights during the next phase of the examination of this wit- rus. and Mr. Patterson stated that nspectors from the electrical depart ent had been observed on the job ‘l;cm time to time. i May Ask Extension. i' As an engineer, he said, when his - had an outside concern to ¢ ‘work for he would want that done with a representative of present to see it done . Lowe, chief clerk of the Wlectrical department, next took the stand. He said that he failed to re- call the order of the Commissioners requiring Electrical Engineer Hadley to supervise installation of traffic Yights ever having passed through his hands. When his attention was called, however, to a rubber stamp of Had- Jey's signature on a carbon copy of an order from the Commissioners he eaid that the stamp indicated that Mr. Hadley had probably signed the original. During the session. Mr. Hammer suggested that the subcommittee seek o have introduced immediately a 1se resolution giving the subcom- muittes life to continue its survey of (istrict affairs after the demise of the Yresent Congress. Chairman Gibson took the matter under advisement, stating that it Supper. Burnside Post, 3 meet tomorrow Army Hall. The Nebraska State Association of Washington will hold a banquet at Grace Dodge Hotel tomorrow, 7 p.m., in celebration of the sixtieth anniver. sary of the admission of the State of Nebraska to the Union. Prominent speakers. Music and Nebraska films, Civitan_luncheon tomorrow, 12:30 p.m., at Hotel La Fayette. Speaker, Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, retired. Columbia Heights Citizens’ Associa- tion will meet tomorrow, 8 p.m., in Columbia Heights Christian Church. The Board of Education will meet Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., at Franklin School building. { The Ad Club will meet tomorrow, 12:30 p.m., at the Arlington. Repre- sentative Manlove of Missoyri, will speak of ‘Reglonal Advertising.” Takoma Park Civic Study Club will meet tomorrow, 2 p.m., in the ball- oom of Takoma Theater. Seldon M. All women welcome. 0. 8, G. A. R., will| p.m., at Grand h. o 'sfic o o, tes, Va8 Va1, PR or sncioat. (his ‘ad with. ories —uwhere you are made to feel at home. of marriage, were the ancient Romans, wino considered this the most propi- tlous season of the year for entering upon matrimonial relations. The Ro- mans held that June weddings were likely to be happler than alllances con- tracted in any other month of the year, especially "if the day chosen were that of the full moon or the con- Junction of the sun and moon. They also held that of all the months, May was the most avoided, as in that month newlyweds would come under the influence of spirits adverse to happy households. The word “‘wedding” is derived from the ancient Anglo-Saxon word ‘‘wed” —custom—the “wed” consisted of a gift, including a ring, usually given by the bridegroom to the bride. At the marriage ceremonies in those dayd the father of the bride presented his son-in-law with one of his daughter's shoes as a token of the transfer of authority, and ‘the bride was struck sharply on the head by her new spouse with the pedal weapon as a reminder that he was henceforth her “boss.” The tying of old shoes on the back of the carriage or auto that bears the newlyweds away from the church door today is a survival of this ancient custom. Push Big Projects in India. Two projects now under way in In- Transaction Not Authorized. “The transaction ‘evidenced by the contracts and leases was not author- ized by the act of June 4, 1920. The grant of authority to the Secretary of the Navy did not indicate a change of policy as to conservation of the reserves * * * It has been and is the policy of the United States to maintain a great naval petroleum reserve in the ground ¢ * *. “The contracts and leases and all that was done under them are so interwoven that they conmstitute a single transaction not authorized by law, and consummated by conspiracy, corruption and fraud. The petition- ers stand as wrongdoers, and no equity arises in their favor to prevent granting the relief sought by the United States. They may not insist on payment * * ¢ as all was done without authority, and as means to circumvent the law. The civil suits growing out of the naval oll leases reached the Supreme Court through an appeal allowed the Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co. and the Pan-American Petroleum Co. involving the lease obtained by Edward L. Doheny on the Elk Hills (Calif.) naval reserve and the con- tracts signed by Doheny’s companies for constructing storage tanks at the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawall. The construction work was to be done at cost and be pald for by the Government out of royalty oil which it received from leases on the reserves, The contracts also involved the plac- ing by Doheny of & quantity of fuel oil in the storage tanks in exchange for crude oil to be furnished by the Navy. Contracts and leases made with Doheny and with Harry F. Sinclair precipitated the Senate’s Teapot Dome investigation, which resulted in the adoption of a resolution under which special counsel was appointed by the Government to test the legality of the whole transaction. Suits to cancel the leases and contracts were entered, that against Doheny being filed in the Federal District Court at Los Angeles, and that against Sinclair in the Federal Court at Cheyenne, Wyo. Courts Canceled Leases. The trial court in the Doheny case canceled the leases and contracts, but allowed Doheny compensation for the consruction work’ at Pearl Harbor. Both the Government and Doheny ap- pealed, and the Circuit Court sustained dia will irrigate 11,600,000 acres of now unproductive land. The Lloyd Barrage will carry the waters of the Indus to 6,000,000 acres gnd the Sutlej Valley scheme in the Punjab will pro- vide moisture to 5,500,000 acres. The Lloyd Barrage will ¢ost $7,000,000 by the time work is completed, 10 years hence, and the Punjab project will cost $58,000,000 and be completed in 1982. S At a fair held recently at Soerabaya, Dutch East Indles, sixty American products were exhibited. on the details. Workers “Your recommended itself to him highly. Commissioners to Wait. - Deapite fresh revelations before the Gibeon subcommittee of irregularities The FEDERAL-AMERICAN | Government workers, you can se- cure a loan here of $100 at once by investing only $13.50 a month for twelve months, at the end of which time the loan is not only paid.in full but there will be a savings ac- count of $50 to your credit at this bank. We loan from $50 to $300 DEPARTMENTAL BANK 1714 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W, Pays 4% on Savings Accounts the cancellation of the contracts and leases, but reversed the District Court on the construction work, holding that Doheny was not entitled to compensa- tion because of the illegality of the contracts under which it was per- formed. The trial court gt Cheyenne sus- tained the Sinclair leases and con- tracts on the Teapot Dome, Wyoming, naval oil reserve, but the Eighth Cir- cuit Court of Appeals reversed it, or- dering their cancellation. Oral argument of the Doheny case same plan. Ask us for Bank” | transact DOHENY OIL LEASES CANCELED | BY SUPREME COURT DECISION| in the Supreme Court developed com- plete disagreement between the two sides on all of the essentlal facts at issue. For Doheny it was contended that Congress by the act of June 4, 1920, had given the Secretary of the Navy authority to use, store, exchange or sell the ofl and gas on the naval reserves, in his discretion, directly or by contract, and that Edwin Denby, having determined as Seccretary of the Navy the oil could not be held in reserve in the ground, decided that as much of it as possible should be taken out and the crude royalty ofl recefved by the Government, ,about one-eighth of the total produced, should bo exchanged for fuel oil to be placed in storage tanks. It was argued that Denby decided to use his authority to exchange some of that royalty oil for storage facilitles, di- recting contracts to be made to that end. Secretary of Interlor Fall throughout the whole proceedings act- ed in an advisory capacity, Doheny’s counsel contended, the leases and con- tracts being made by Denby. Famous $100,000 Incident. During the negotiations Doheny sent Fall $100,000 in_the celebrated “ittle black satchel,” but Doheny's counsel contended this was a loan entirely apart from the leases or contracts, merely the act of one friend in re- lving the financial distress of &n- other. Doheny's counsel assertad hat the trial court was in error in holding that the contracts and leases had been made by Fall through an unlawful delegation of authority by President Harding, who signed an order: trans- ferring the administration of the re- serves from the Navy to the Interior Department, and that fraud in the form of a bribe had also vitiated the The Government argued that in the act of 1920, Congress directed the Sec. retary of the Navy to “conserve” the oil in the reserves, and insisted that its permission to use, store, exchange or gell referred only to such royalty oil as the Government received from offset wells operated to prevent drain- age. The whole purpose of naval re- serve legislation had been destroyed, it declared, when, under the leader- ship of Admiral J. K. Robison, the Navy adopted a -policy of exploiting the reserves to provide fuel for stor- age statlons, for which Congress had refused to appropriate. Robison was described as having obtained the con- sent of Denby, Fall had taken over completely the naval oll reserves, Government coun- sel declared, had received a bribe of $100,000 from Doheny, and delivered the contracts and leases to him in secret in violation of the laws requir- ing advertising and competition in the awarding of bids. Denby was. pic- tured by them as not knowing what was going on and with actually sign- ing papers without knowledge of their contents. They claimed that all appre- hension of the drainage of the re- serves by privately owned wells on ad- jacent property had been dispelled, and that Navy officers knew as well as officials of the Interior Department at the time the contracts and leases were made that the oil could be retained in the ground intact for an indefinite time. Doheny Held Trespasser. Congress had for a time appropri- ated for naval fuel stations, but ow- ing to abuses- the Government coun- gel said, had for several years refused to make further appropriations. Then they said Admiral Robison convinced Secretary Denby that the installation of such stations could be obtained by the use of the naval reserve-oil, not- withstanding the position taken by Congress. Doheny was declared by Govern- ment counsel to have been a tres- passer upon the Elk Hills Reserve, with full knowledge of the illegality of his presence there, as well as the unlawfulness of the contracts for the construction work. Under well es- tablished law he was not entitled, they claimed, to any compensation whatever for construction work or other expenses incident to the con- tracts and leases. ‘The Government asked the court for a sweeping decision which would not only hold the leases and contracts void, because made by Fall and tinc- tured with fraud, but to lay down the definite ruling that until Con- gress provided to the contrary the naval reserves should be conserved and not exploited, and that no execu- tive official, not even the Secretary of the Navy, could throw them open to exhaustive drilling. The Government's counsel éngaged in sarcastic reference to the “patriot- ism” of Fall and Doheny, under which storage tanks were to be con- structed for the Government at cosf asserting that Fall had gotten his pay when Doheny’s son handed him $100,000 out of the little black bag, and that Doheny had himself stated that he expected to make a profit of $100,000,000 out of the ofl he would receive under the contracts and is one thing that you all your assets. kind of. 'MONDAY. FEBRUARY 2 IS SIMMlNlNE Your Business ‘ Judgment i Will—yet it may be ¢the most valuable 3 But you can assure for your estate the as your Executor or Trustee. Officers explain the advanta, flhmfin&uwm p. UNION ) TRUST CO. ~ or F DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 1927. WOMAN SCIENTIST Prof. Winifred Clara Cullis| Shows No Traits of : Stage Variety. | By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 28.—Prof. Wini- fred Clara Cullis has nothing of the appearance of woman sclentists as shown on the stage. She comes of a scientific family Her father and two brothers are dis- tinguished scientists, and she has spent much of her life in laboratories and lecture rooms. But there is noth- ing of the old-fashioned or hibernating reclue in the woman professor of physiology of London University Plays Golf and Dances. As president of the British Federa- tion of University Women and vice president of the International Federa- tion of University Women, Prof. Cul- lis finds time to work for the bettér- ment of women the world over. And in spite of her professional and public service duties, she finds time for walk- | ing. golfing. cricket and dancing. Prof. Cullls, who is well known in the United States, is very enthusk about the attitude of women in North America toward education. The great numbers of all who attend college, whether they tend to follow careers or nof, to her very stropgly. U. S. Women ("lllpl(menled. “English women would do well to imitate the example of the women in the New World,” she said. ‘“More girls of the upper classes should go to Oxford or Cambridge, just as their brothers do, to broaden their outlook on_life.” Prof. Cullis holds the opinjon that marriage neel not interfere with women's professional work and that states exceed their authority when they bar married women from public service. “I do not believe in the so-called protective legislation for women for- bidding them to engage in certain in- dustrial occupations on the same lines as men,” said Prof. Cullis. Restrictive Legislati “I call that restrictive legislation. You will remember Huxley's words, ‘If we think a woman is handicapped by nature, for God's sake don’t let d to that handicap by men's classes laws’. The professor is unmarried at 50 | and_laughingly says she has more | need for a wife than a husband. She finds it is something of a burden to keep a household going and attend to social dutles.on top of her professional work. Spain Nationalizing Roads. Spain's efforts to nationize all rail- ways in that country has been con- siderably furthered by the recent pur- chase of the Central of Aragon Rail- way by the Norte Railway. The ac- quisition resulted in the buying of other roads, and plans have been made for the construction of other lines, which will improve Spain’s shipments to ports and to France and also es- tablish.a connection between the Medi- terranean and the Bay of Biscay. LSO VTR T R T " Faint heart neer won fair lady! Nor will faint- hearted protests against the extra in- terest and service charges on your bills avail much if you are content to let matters as they are. We are working whole-heartedly for you day after day to help you in your fight against this system wherein you pay for something you did not buy. Be strong, let us. make it a. sure victory. We do not penalize our friends. T ) | | | | i D J. STELLWAGEN- PRESIDENT | i | ! i Q| C. CULLIS. PROF. WINIFRE DENIES SECRET PACT ON FORCE IN CHINA Kellogg Issues Reply to House Query Seeking Information on Subject. By the Assoclated Press. Secretary Kellogg has informed the | House foreign affairs committee that the American Government has no | secret treaty with other powers rela- tive to the use of joint military forces in China. * His communication was in reply to | a resolution requesting information on this subject introduced hy Repre- sentative Black, Demacrat, York. | Salmon Returns Home to Die. All salmon with minor exceptions are anadromous, which is to say they spend most of their lives in the sea but lay their eggs in the gravel of fresh-water streams, supposedly the stream wherein they were hatched two to six years previously. At the end of their gea career and before they are ready to die they return to their native stream, spawn, and in most cases die. All salmon, however, do not die after spawning, though it has been established that certain of fraud the United ¢ of New | DAUGHERTY CASE 15 NEARING CLOSE Buckner, Continuing Govern- ment’s Summation, Again Attacks Claims. By the Associated Press. FEDERAL COURT, NEW YORK, February 28.—The Government’s sum mation ~was continued when the Daugherty-Miller trial resumed today United States Attorney Emory R | Buckner took k on the | validity of the s of the Sociefe Suisse Pour s de Metaux f the $7,000,000 proceeds of the sale of seized shares of the American Metal o . Harry M. Daugherty, former At- torney general, and T i ler, former alien proper are charged with v to de- ates of their best ervices in the allowances of tlte claim. The Governmen: leges they shared in a $441,000 “fee” paid to in fluence passage of the claims. Opening of court was delayed by the tardiness of a juror, who said he v delayed by the death of frlend. Death of a jurer's son had caused a previous three-day delay ‘Woman Suréeon for Birds A New York wom has adopted the strang profession of surgeon and doctor for all kinds of, birds says the Adventure Magazine. She makes a close study of bird ailmants and performs skillful operations on her feathered charges. Among the compiaints for which she hag successfully treated bird patients arg | rtheumatism, fever and indigestion. Her skill is so generally recog- nized that people from all parts of America send their pet birds to her for treatment. During the Summer. too, many families while on holiday send their birds to her. A complete bird hospital has been established by this woman and one room is special set apart for deli- cate surgical operations. Several hundreds of different birds are to be found in the hospital during the Summer, and all kinds of devices have been provided to keep them in good spirits. There is even a gramo- the best known types have been known to do so. to which the feathered in- fond of listening. phone, 3 CASTILE. Lnsburgh & Co. Cakes Dona Castile Soap and 10c Washcloth A 40c Value for 25F LANSBURGH & BRO.—7! th, 8th and E Sts.—Fr. 7400 An International Special Top Coats It took two nations to produce this really exceptional value in smart Top Coats. The fabric was woven in Belgium. The Coats were made by our tailors: here. Camel’s hair, the ideal Top Coat fab- ric—in the very, correct mode. Three shades=Light Tan, Medium Tan and Dark Gray. - $55 Value ~ - $37.50 Your size is here The Mode—F at Eleventh ¥ {