Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1927, Page 17

TEMPORARY WHITE HOUSE IS OCCUPIED. President Coolidge ar- riving at the Patterson mansion on Dupont circle, after leaving the executive offices yesterday evening, accompanied by one of the White House collies. The President and Mrs. Coolidge moved into the mansion yesterday, to remain while repairs are being made to the White Hous. National Photo. THE EVENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, COMMITTEE PLANS ORATORICAL ENTERTAINMENTS. | ‘Washington chapter of the Constitution Club, which will give an E: ~ Members of the executive committee of the ster dance after the selection of school representatives in the National Oratorical Contest and another dance at the time of the national finals in May. Left to right, front ro Ruth Newburn. Back row: ryn Bowers. Misses Ruth Craven, Ruth G Joseph Mullarky, Joseph Sorrell, Warren Magee, J. A. Haltigan and Miss Kath- Greenwood, Myrtle Posey Edith Raphelson and Washington Star Photo. Col. E. C. Carrington, wealthy Chi- cagoan, waiting in Police Court in New York to be arraigned on charges of assaulting his brother, Campbell Carrington, who is named in the former's divorce suit. Copyright by P. & A. Photos, | i FORMER RUSSIAN LEADER ARRIVES. Alexander Kerensky, who headed the first revolutionary government in Russia after the Czar's overthrow, arrives at New York for his first visit in this country. As s Paris publisher, Kerensky for several years has been working for the overthrow of the Russian Soviet government. Wide World Photos. GOVERNMENT PRINTS BIGGEST Fitzgerald of Ohio receives from Geor ing), the first copy of the new codifi from the LAW BOOK. ge H. jon of e ic nd- l"uie‘:“:l statutes to come X e volume contains 2,100 pages. As committee chair- the press. man, Representative Fitzgerald had charge of the codification work. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. WHEN GOLF TAKES A STEADY NERVE. Buddy Mason, stunt per- former of Los Angeles, driving a golf ball from a steel beam 18 stories above the downtown section of the prefers to sit on the beam. DICKINSON ASSAILS FARM BILL' VETO Declares Political Expediency Guided President—Cites Possible Tariff Fight. By the Assoclated Press. The statement that President Cool- | tdge's veto of the McNary-Haugen| farm relief bill was “inspired by a politician’s calculations of political ad- | ‘vantage” was made today by Repre-| sentative Dickinson, Republican, 0[; Jowa, in an extension of remarks in| the Congressional Record which, he| sald, was designed as the repiy of or- | sanized agriculture to the veto mes- sage. Recognized as one of the farm bloc leaders in Congress, the Jowa member incorporated in his remarks a state- ment signed by George N. Peek, chairman of ‘the executive committee of 22 of the North Central States' Agriculture Conference. “The veto was inspired not by a statesman’s conception of principles of economics and government,” Dick- inson sald, “hut by a politician’s cal- culations of political advantage.” Blames Misuse of Power. “And be it remembered,” he added, “that the misuse of political power is respomsible for many of the unjust burdens of the farmers, and that it is through the misuse of political power that selfish Industrial interests are now seeking to further industrialize the aNtion at the expense of agricul- ture.” He declared that “newspaper com- ment” had referred to the political rather than economic effect of the ‘veto, and that, in his opinion, should any person hold the office of President for longer than eight years it would give “his group of friends and the particular interests that appeal to him a distinct advantage.” He predicted that the third-term issue would become one of the “pri- mary influences” in the 1928 presi- dential campalign. Mr. Peek's statement, some 8,000 ‘words in length, consisted of an anal- vais of what he sald were the “four- ieen points” of the veto message. Sanctions Industrial Protection. “The veto message is part of the program that is industrializing Amer- } ica at the expense of agriculture,” hie sald, “Repeatedly it pictures evil | effects following better prices for the | Nation's cash crop. It expresses the viewpoint of laissez fare for agricul- ture while sanctioning protection for industry, _““After reading the message with its almost infinite fault-finding over de- | tails, the thought occurs that the fundamental, unexpressed objection 2uay be that voiced by Andrew Mel. | Jon" a vear ago, when he asked for ihe rejection of the surplus control Lill on the ground that it would tend 10 ralse the cost of food and raw juaterial necessary to industry in the United States.’ Representative Dickinson _dented that friends of the MeNary-Haugen ! Vill had supported it wi.h the hope f its fnuring to the benefit or injury «f possible presidential candidates, «aid the Republican party had pledged { any department the right to discon- | tinue lectures | amination period, and for a period 70 Entomed Men Saved From Mine After Three Hours By the Associated Press. ‘WILKES-BARRE, Pa., March 3. —Seventy miners were entombed in the Dorrance colliery of the Le- high Valley Co. yesterday, but after three hours they were rescued un- harmed through an old working. The men were working 800 feet below the surface. A runaway trip on a slope tore down timbering and a roof cave extending mnearly 100 feet followed, completely blocking the main galleries. John Abraham, mine foreman, finally reached the | men through an old working and | pulled them through a manhole. | | { | HARVARD T0 REDUCE TIME IN CLASSROOM | New Policy Will Relieve Students From Constant Supervision and Give Teachers Opportunities. By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,, March 3.— Harvard has declded to cut substan- tially the length of time now required of students in the classroom. Falling in line with British and European universities, whose annual perlod of teaching and examination is from two to three months shorter than here, the corporation and board of overseers today approved a report by the faculty of arts and sclences recommending the change. The plan may be put into effect in_the academic year 1927-28. Two_important ends are sought un. der the new arrangement—partial freelng of students from minute and continuous supervislon of their studies, and relief of teachers from part of thelr excessive burden of teaching. It is hoped that the plan will mean greater opportunity for maximum ac- complishment on the part of the stu. dent and for writing and research by the teachers. The proposal approved today gives and other classroom exercises for the 215 weeks between Christmas recess and the midyear ex- of approximately 31 weeks. prior to the final examination perfod in June. This does not apply to elementary courses, including all courses open to freshmen, Tutoring. also is to be suspended during the two periods, except for seniors in May before their general examinations, but the students will be given assignments of reading or other work. —— itself to place agriculture on a sound economic basis, and declared that only states in the Northeast section ot the country had voted solidly against the measure. Referring to the tariff, he said it will now be the problem of the farm. er to study its schedules. Every- where he will see, he continued, that exorbitant prices are being charged or that excessive profits are being made, and he will join with those who are seeking a downward division on such commoditles in order to secure the equality to which he be- lieves he is entitled. R ON THE FIRING LINE IN THE GIANTS' TRAINING CAMP. Pacific Coast city. His wise caddy FAIR OMENS OF SPRING. Miss Catherine Odoi (left) and Miss Grace Healy of San Francisco, who are hiking around the country a bit, visit the White House to pay their respects to President Coolidge. Their pre- Spring migrations will take them to New York before they start home. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. BABE SIGNS WITH YANKS AT INCREASE. Babe Ruth, slugging out- flelder of the New York Yankees, arriving in New York for his salary conference yesterday with Col. Ruppert, club owner,, which was notable for its brevity. year contract calling for $70,000 annually. The player, after demanding $100,000, signed a three- ‘Wide World Photos. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. A promising corps of “rookie” pitchers in action at the New York Giants’ training camp at Sarasota, Fla. In the group, left to right: Courtney, Holland, Bentley, Stryker, Greenfleld, Kallina, Porter, Clarkson and Henry. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. LS TEES RICH INDIAN GIRL'S FRIENDS ARRESTED White Husband of Heiress, Failing to Find Her, Charges Kidnaping. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Okla., March 3.—Efforts of Earle Gordon, white husband of Maude Lee Mudd, Indian heiress, to locate his wealthy wife, today found her erstwhile traveling companions under arrest on a kidnaping charge, ile she successfully continued her will-o"-the-wisp role. Victor J. Wilson and his wife Edith were arrested yesterday at Fafrland, Okla., on a complaint flled by Gordon charging they kidnaped Maude Lee in Riverside, Calif., in August, 1925. The Gordons were then on a wedding tour following their marriage at Council Bluffs, Towa, in June of that vear. Gordon, a former automobile sales- man here, said he obtained the war- rant nearly a year ago in Montgom- ery County, Kans., passed through that section accom anied by the Wilsons. o Atier geny!ng all charges, the Wil- sons_refused to waive extradition on the Kansas charge and were listed as fugitives from justice. 4 Mrs. Susan Bomberry, the girl's mother, was understood to have ap- proved the marriage because she thought it would remove her daugh- ter from the control of her legal guar- dian, Willlam Stmms of Vinita, Okla. After extended litigation, however, Simms was reinstated as guardian in charge of oil and mining properties valued at more than a million dollars. Her recent appearance at Vinita to confer with her banker caused Gov- ernment agents to announce further attempted investigation of her travels would be abandoned. In accordance with her orders, she was provided with a new automobile with which to continue her travels, She sald she wished to tour the coun: try. Her wealthy Quapaw and Osage rcl- atives refuse to deny or confirm re. ports they know her whereabouts. when his wife | By the Associated Press. TOKIO, March 3.—Royalty and officialdom joined the little girls of Japan today in their doll festival as nearly 11,000 dolls from the children of the United States were formally received as ‘“guests.” {dren, Sunday school members and girls' organizations of America, the | dollies arrived here recently in sev- eral shipments, to participate in the festival, which is the most important 1day on the calendar for little Miss | Japan. The doll festival has been a custom among the youngsters of the jempire for more than 1,000 'years. i The dolls were collected as the re- sult of a movement instituted by | the Federal Council of Churches of | Christ in America, which formed a | committe on world’ friendship among Ichfldren to carry out the idea. Formal Reception Held. ! The formal reception was_held during the afternoon at the Youns Men's Association Hall, under the auspices of the committee on inter- national friendship among children in Japan. One thousand children, including many American youngsters, attended, and there were about 1,000 official guests, including seven imperial princesses. the vice minister of edu- | cation and members of the American embassy. The hall was decorated with Japanese and American flags. The children sang the national anthems of the two countries .o the accom- paniment of a military band. American Ambassador MacVeagh and Viscount Shibusawa, head of the Gathered among the school chil- { ROYALTY JOINS FETE AS GIRLS IN JAPAN GET 11,000 U. S. DOLLS Gifts From A‘merican School Children Are Received as “Guesta“ BE{OI‘B ScVCl’l Princesses as MacVeagh Speaks. committee here, delivered addresses, stressing the friendship of Japan and America. The American dollies will be dls- tributed among the children of the primary and kindergarten schools of the principal cities of the empire, where receptions again will be held. Forty-nine of the dolls, one repre- senting “Miss America,” and 48 bear- ing the names of each State in the American Union, will be presented to Princess Teru and later kept in the Imperial Museum. These are par- ticularly gorgeous creations. Miss Japan treats her doll with more consideration than the average doll in America recelves. Here the doll is the guest of honor in the Japanese home for three days each year, beginning on the day of the festivai. After that she is put away carefully until the next festival. —e FLEECED BY STRANGERS. Man Appeals to Police After Buy- ing $40 Suit Pattern. Gus Tryfors, 1466 Irving street, vesterday paid four strangers $40 for a suit pattern which they told him had been smuggled into the country. After they had gone Tryfors de- clded he had been swindled and asked police to get on the trail of the m They appeared to be foreigners and one wore an_English sailor suit. Dr. Jullan B. Jacobs of the Chastle- ton apartments has asked the police 10 look up two gypsy girls who called at his office yesterday soliciting a job of fortune telling. When they left Jacobs missed $5. 2 < RADIO LAWS CALLED UNFAIR BY ARTHUR Partial to Large Interests, De- clares Washington Secretary of League of America. By the Associated Press. JOPLIN, Mo., March 3.—Recent congressional radio legislation was termed unconstitutional and “partial to the large radio interests,” by C. Wood Arthur “of Washington, D. C., secretary of the Radio League of America, in-a statement here last night. Arthur said the acts of the newly appointed Radio Commission would be contested before the Supreme Court by the league. The Senate was charged with passing ‘“hasty legislation on a subject about which it knew little.” “Congress was warned by the Ra- | dio League of America,” he said, “in on the floor of the Senate, in which it clearly set forth that the radio cor- poration of America and allied sats lites were strongly behind the bil ,known as the radio conferees com- mission report.” New radio laws will enable large radio corporations to gain a stronger foothold and discriminate against the smaller stations throughout the country, Arthur declared, Dr. Stowell to Speak. Dr. Ellery C. Stowell, professor of international law, American Unive sity, and president of the Better Go ernment League, will address the weekly luncheon forum of the City Club_tomorrow on *“How Washington Can Get Better Government.” The City Club Syncopators will entertain and the proccedings will be icast by WMAL. Gen. Anton Stephen, ident, will preside. — . ‘Village youth makes a to the city he usually has ‘When flying t & bird ja letter to Senator Pittman and read’ Cemetery Keeper | Drops Dead on Way | Home From Burial | By the Associated Press. CHESTERVILLE, S. C., March 83.—While returning from Ever- green Cemetery, where he had been superintending the digging of a grave for a man who had dropped dead, James G. Norris, keeper of the cemetery, himself suffered what is believed to have been a heart attack and collapsed on a snow- covered street. His body was discovered by two passersby, and a little later Dr. George A. Hennies arrived. Soon after being lifted into Dr. Hennies’ automobile, to be hurried to a hospital, he breathed heavily about twice and then expired. | FRENCH POi.ICE HUNT MISSING NOBLEMAN { Warrant Held for Lord Terrington in $2,000,000 London Bankruptcy. By the Assoclated Press. NICE, France, March 3.—Despite a report that Lord Terrington, wanted in London In connection with bank- ruptcy proceedings involving about $2,000,000, had started for England, French police hunted for him all day with a warrant for his arrest. In the course of the search, which covered the entire French Riviera and in ‘which Scotland Yard men took a part, the French police visited the ex- clusive Embassy Club, having learned that some one connected with the management had been overheard to say that he knew Lord Terrington's address. As the front of the club is in the territory of Monte Carlo and the back on French soil, the police had to wait for two different search warrants, The hunt, however, yielded nothing and was continued fruitlessly | | in other Riviera resorts. . London newspaper correspondents said yesterday that they had dis- covered that Lord Terrington was still in Monte Carlo, staying at the villa of an English friend. They said that they had found him by foilowing the trail of a motor car used by Mrs. Devere Humphrey, who was named by Lady’ Terrington in her divorce pro- ceedings last year. Dispatches from Monte Carlo said that no trace could | be found of Lord Terrington. TRAIN HITS BUILDING. i Rear Car Crashes Into Freight Yard Office at Eckington. A freight train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in the company’s freight yard at Eckington was backed too far early yesterday morning, the rear car knocking down the bumpers at the end of: the track and crashing into the yard office buflding. The accident occurred before the arrival of the office force. Office fur- niture was wrecked and the building “JAZZ AGE” UPHELD BY COLLEGE DEAN Dr. H. E. Hawkes of Colum- bia Opposes Return to Academic Seclusion. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 3.—Colieges today” must learn to understand the “jazz_age” before they can provide useful education to the present generation, Dr. Herbert E. Hawkes, dean of Columbia College, says in an interview in the New York Evening Post today. Unlike Dean Gauss of Princeton, who was quoted recently as saving the salvation of the modern college lay in a return to “academic seclu- sion,” Dean Hawkes contends that with the campus of Columbla fronting on Broadway there can be no seclu- sion for his institution, and that seclu- sion is not necessary. “An appeal to a student’s ambition is a better thing than a seclusion from temptation. A man has got to grow up. He may as well grow. up in | college,” said” Dr. Hawkes. Criticizes Narrow Aims. Some colleges, he declared, lost a definite aim. There is no motivation for good work. The alm is merely to gurn out a type of man. They maintdfn a narrow, traditional appeal. “The day Is past when a teacher can read the same notes to a docile class year after year. If the teacher does not have life enough to progress or recognize that his subject is alive and developing, his students will ce tainly take the initiative in making progress along some other and more vital course.” Defends Up-to-Date Interests. The fact that students’ interests are up-to-date, be they jazz or philoso- phy, is mental independence rather than “flabbiness” in the opinfon of Dean Hawlkes. “The colleges are all doing their best to provide a useful education for our youth,” he stated. *“But unti) they better know the youth whom they are trying to serve, thelr efforts must often be poorly directed.” o e TELLS OF BRITISH POLICE. Inspector Shelby Describes Found- ing of First Modern Force. In an address to the Optimists Club, yesterday at the Harrington Hotel, Inspector W. S. Shelby, of the Metro- politan Police Department, told of the origin and history of the “Bobble” or “Peeler,” the traditional policeman of England. Inspector Shelby traced the term. back -to the founding of the first modern police force by an act of Par- liament in 1826 at the instigation of Sir Robert Peel. There werc earlier police forces, as the French Gendar- merie, but these were usually for special purposes, he sald. The Ameri- have so badly damaged that the workers had to be transferred to a nearby bullding. age to the building and contents- amounted to $3,000, can police force system was inaug- urated in 1846, following closely, the London model, and that of Washing- ton In 1861 by Abraham Lincoln,