Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1927, Page 17

DEMOCRATS RECEIV] BASE Thomas S. MeMillan of South just before the expiration of € E'I'ARTL\G Pinedo (at left), #he BALL Caroli base ball team of the House, holding the trophy w defeating the Republicans last Summe ngress. TROPHY. Representative ned the Democratic by the team when The trophy was presented Cop; ht by P &A !‘hulns. ina, who capt THE EVENING STAR, W TREATMENT T nt at the clinics provid ov FOUR-CONTINENT FLIGHT. -€ol. Francesco de Hian airman who has arrived in Brazil after flyng e dtal across the Atllmle, chats with Italian Air Minister Balbo, just hefore n-mng on his flight at Cagliari, Sardinia. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. APRL COAL STRIE INGES ON PARLEY Wage Agreement Held Nec- essary to Prevent Bitumi- nous Walkout. Likelihood of a coal strike in the bituminous fields of the United States rests entirely on whether miners and operators get together 'and reach some agreement on wages at the close of the so-called Jacksonville agree- ment before March 31. Unless they do thrash out the wage matter in joint conference before March 31, there is every probability a walkout of miners will become effective April 1. Government observers in close touch with the, situation believe that some arrangement will be made before the close of March by which continuation of work in the central competitive fields will be insured and the threat- ened strike averted. They say there, is a good deal of strike talk in the air, at the same time declaring that there will be no move made by the Government to bring about a wage conference. Factions Far Apart. At present operators and miners are split. The miners are holding out for a continuation of the Jacksonville , arranged three . while the operator: unionized bituminous flelds claim they gannot operate at a profit in compe- tition with non-union fields under th2 Jacksonville scale. So far they have not reached a common meeting Ithough_propos e s on’the Jacksonville age committee is to s in the Middle West ation, but there has a move on the to bring about In the meet to consid been no evidence of part of the operator: another t conference. Government is watch- ing the situation closely, prepared to act if called in by either side, but not taking the initiative itself. A strike on April 1, according to Bureau of Mines figures, would mean little difficulty and tie-up of indu unless it was long-drawn-out. Non- union production in West Virginia and the Southern non-union fields is esti- mated at 6,000,000 tons a week, ag a normal weekly consumption of ap- proximately 10,600,000 to Good Reserve Supply. Coal stocks on April 1 will appr. mate 70,000,000 tons, a reserve which, together with non-union productio will protect industry from serious d fleulty for an estimated period of three months or more. In addition, the an thracite miners in Pennsylv: working under a five-y ment and can produc waalr ine central compeutive fields con- atitute the focal point of any disturb- ance in the unioni: dustry. The three States of Ohw, Indlana and Ilinois virtually wield the balance of power in the unionized ndustry and if an agreement is reached there it will spread to the operators of union mines in other parts of the country, according to mine union officials, A strike in the central flelds would LEGISLATUREPAYS UMBERLAND VISIT Special Train Bears Mary- land Party on Tour of Two Days. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., March 4.—A visit unique in the history of Cumber- land and Allegany County is that to- day and tomorrow of the Maryland General Assembly with the Chamber of Commerce as hosts. Practically the entire membership arrived by special train to remain un- til Sunday morniug, when the party starts_on_the return trip by motor over the National Highway, stopping in Hagerstown, where entertalnment will be provided. The visitors were tendered a compil- mentary luncheon on the train and the first stop was at the Baltimore and Ohio shops, which were inspected. A late type Mallet engine, constructed at the shops, was shown. The party was met at the station here by the Municipal Band. Later it visited the Kelly-Springfield tire plant. A free theatrical entertainment and _open house at the Elks, Eagles, Monse Clubs are included in the evening pro- gram. Tomorrow the party will visit the cellulose plant built here by an Eng- lish syndicate and the coal mines about Frostburg. They will be lunch eon guests of Frosthurg State Norm: School. The entertainment concludes tomorrow night with a vanquet at the Fort Cumberland Hotel. | CHARGE U. S. TOURISTS HOODWINKED IN PARIS Poet-Singers and Ballad-Makers Claim Visitors Never See Picturesque Life. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 4.—American tour- ist trips through the “wicked” night life of Paris have aroused the poet-singers and ballad makers of Montmartre to protest. They say the sightseeing car crowds are taken Into imitation, faked cabarets instead of to the places where the troubadour art- ists hold forth with an art that may be less exciting to the tourists, but really represents the picturesque side of France, The combined sarcasm of the cab- aret notables, whose association is headed by Maurice Donnay of the Academie Francaise, was -turned on'’ age ag 1,800,000 tons a | ed bituminous in- | the night trips at the recent benefit of the “chansonniers” or singers, whose | skit represented the artists themselves as making the night trip and seeing all the American tourists and the | places where they are taken by guldes | Who get a percentage of the admission e mean the same move in other paru of the uhionized coal-mining industry, fecting the Far West and the North- west, but not particularly affecting West Virginia and the Southern fields, where most of the production comes roLm non-union mines, it is pointed oul John Philip Sousa, composer and band leader, tries out the musical qualities of a new harmonica. The instrument is designed to provide the half-tone notes of the full chro- matic scale. Wide World Photos. Jing in the worl ing the cli WHITE POLICE DOG HINGTON, WINS SHOW Some uf (lu\ little orthopedic patis ises of the Inst ed at the club's expense v ¥ Photo. HONOR! This 3-year-old German police dog, Faust, is believed to be the only pure white dog of that breed. ribbons in American shows. Atlantic City home. ' For his other fine points also he has won many medals and He is shown with a little neighbor of his Copy ht hy Undgrwood & Underwood. D. C., TRIDAY, MARCH 4. 1927. Mme. Luella Melius, coloratura soprano, who arrives in Washing- ton today: to the role of da in " the V on Opera .'s presentation of ‘“Rigoletto” fomorrow night at the Washingt Auditorium. WV LEADER. Representative J. Charles by Representative J bloc in the Sixty-ninth € leader of the He is being congratulated nd, retiring leader of the ght by Harris & Ewing. Hello, London! Lady Diana M: nars, English beauty now playing on the American stage, talks over the Dhow‘vnltll her husband in London m Los Angeles. The 7,000-mile circuit is the longest evc used. Wide World Phot lll,'ALll- TES AS YOUNGEST DRUG PROPRIETRESS. Philadelphia believes it has the youngest lady pharmacist in the business. She is Miss Pearl Ruth Shernman, 19 years old, shown here in the drug store she has recently opened in the Quaker City. is 16 hours. Her average daj Wide World Photos. ot SEACE SEEF e JERSEY CITY DOCKS SWEPT BY COSTLY BLAZE. CHICAGO PAVING WAY TO BUILD OWN HOMES First Effort Is Launched to House White Collar Man Ade- quately. By the’Associated Pres CHICAGO, March 4.—Chicago 18 getting ready to dispossess its hous- ing problem. The city has launched its first con- certed effort to adequately house tha “white collar” man and his family, by providing him his own home, on terms he can meet, or by giving him reason- able rent in ideal apartments, Thirty-three representatives of bus- nss, industry and welfare, appointed by Mayor Dever, are busy on the prob- lem. At the head of the committee ts William Zelosky, an experlenced Chicago builder. The first_objective is for modifica- tion of the law which impedes limited dividend porations entering the housing fleld in Illinois, A law will be drafted to present to the State's Legislature. If that obstacle is hur- .dled, the committee plans to form a corporation to: First, erect comfortahle homes and make it easier for the man with limit ed income to own one by stretching the financing period over 15 to 20 years' time. It is now 8 to 10, ; Second, to gradually buy property in desirable residential districts. tear down delapidated structures and erect | architecturally correot and_ attractive apartments. Zelosky believes such apartments can be offered at a rental of $10 a room. Chicago's home owning percent- | age is one of the lowest in the coun try. It is 27 per cent, just ahead of that of New York, which is 12 per- ) cent, but unlike New York, Chicago’s | land area is almost unrestricted. A new ceramic material which can be heated up to 700 degrees and then immersed In, cold water without crack- Ing has been produced in Germany. { of | tual understanding and good will be von Hindenburg exchanged messages of felicitation and mutual good will this morning to open service over the newly laid cable between the United States and Germany, marking the first re-establishment of direct cable com- munication between the two countries since the outbreak of the World War in 1914, Both President Coolidge and Presi- dent von Hindenburg, the latter one of the outstanding figures of the war as the ‘“iron fleld marshal” in com- mand of the German -armies on the Western front, expressed the hope that this latest step in bringing the United States and Germany once more into close international relationship would close the last gap remaining hetween the two nations. The messages were sent simultaneously from Washington and Berlin at 11 o'clock this morning. resident Coolidge’s message was as It gives me great pleasure to take advantage of the occasion of the opening of direct cable communication between the United States and Ger- many to send to your excellency my cordial greetings and to express the hope that this additional means communication will promote mu- tween the two countries.” A few minutes after this message | had begun its undersea journey Presi- dent von Hindenburg’'s message was completed in New York and relayed by speecial wire to the White House. The German President's greeting follows: “I welcome with gratification the re-establishment of the direct cable connection between Germany and the United States and it affords me spe- clal pleasure to express to you, Mr, President, and to ?;e American people, President Coolidge and President | Exchange of Messages by Two Presicients Opens First U. S.-German Undersea Service Since World War. my sincerest greetings on the oc- casion of the opening of the new Gmden-Azofes-New York cable. It is my confident hope that this new tele- graphio communication. which has been bullt jointly by American and rman companies, will always con- tribute to promote and maintain the good understanding between our countries and economic interests.” This cable is the first one between Germany and the United States in which American capital had an im- portant interest. The cable was laid form New York to the Azores Islands by the Western Union Telegraph and Cable Co. There it met a cable which was laid from Emden by a German company. The two were linked by both companies, completing a circuit 3,000 miles long. The fact that the line was completed in such a short time was due, offi- clals of the Western Union said, to a new metal that was used, called ““permalloy This metal was do veloped by American metallurgists It Is said not only to be much more rapid of construction, and more per manent in structure, but ‘that it is capable of handling three times as many messages as metals formerly used. Before the World War there were two direct cable lines between Ger-- many and the United States. When hostilities were declared in 1914, how- ever, Britlsh warships cut these lines beyond the three-mile limit. = Great Britain took one and France the other. The British cable is still operating from a Canadian base and the French have continued the use of the other. As a result, Germany and the United States were obliged to transmit their business via Great Britain or France or by radio until the fiew cable was completed, A view of the fire which threatened to wipe out the Jersey City water front yesterday. The blaze caused damage estimated at $1,000,000 before 27 fire companies, after a six-hour battle, sllc::edod in bflngll!z it {lmler conlrg COOLIDGE AND VON HINDENBURG SEND GREETINGS BY NEW CABLE Copyright by P. A. Photos. CULTURE PROGRESS IS TRACED IN FIRE Expert Says Man Made One of Greatest Strides When He Learned to Use It. Man made one of his greatest strides forward when he learned to use fire, some time before the dawn of history, according to a bulletin issued from the National Museum by . Walter Hough, head curator of the history of fife, says Dr. Hough, be ‘traced the cultural progress of man. The earliest known human beings used fire in some fash- ign. All primitive people seem to have sed the firestick first for making fire. 0ood was rubbed against wood by arious devices. The use of flint and steel began.in the iron age, and spread broadly. The lens and mirror method of ignition was known to the Romans, but used largaly for cere- monial purposes. The chimney was introduced into Europe in the fourteenth century and in the Western Hemisphere only after the arrival of Columbus. It is indic- atlve gf the fact that the use of fire has Influenced architecture as it has f the other arts of man. he year 1927 marks the centenary of " the “original I cifer match, which was first made by John Walker, Stock- ton upon Tees, England. These matches became immensely -poyular, but Walker refused to capitalize his discovery financially. It was also just & hundred years ago that gas for il- luminating purposes was introduced in New York City, aithough ‘in 1792 an English manufactyger used it. In 1808 Sir Humphrey Davey first demon- strated the use of electricity for il- lumination, but use was not general until later. The incandescent lamp was perfected In 1862 and the arc light in 1878, “The present age looks forward to procuring an abundant and cheap source of brilliant light from a_mini- mum of ical aid,” Dr. Hough states. m look with allowable confidence the near attainment ol’ this desid mm SEEK MISSING MEN WITHIN THE PRISON Authorities Convinced Two Convicts, Reported Escaped, Are Hidden in Sing Sing. By the Associated Pres @SSINING, N. Y rch 4. —With- in the sentry-guai s ot Sing Sing Prison a marhunt was in prog- ress last night to drag twe conviets back to the cells from which they had fled. The escaped convicts are “Babe” Pioli, serving 20 years for murdering “Knockout” Bill Brennan, night club owner and former opponent of Jack Dempsey, and George Walmale, sen- tenced to four years for carrying fire arms. Check-up Shows Them Missing. They were missed at the 6 J'clock check-up Wednesday night and al- though the surrounding country was scoured for them all that night and v Warden Lawes was con could mot have got out- side the walls. He recalled a previ occurrence when a convict hid inside the ‘walls and was not found for three ppearance of Walmale and Pioli was discovered last night the prison siren, which can be heard for 10 miles, was immediately sound ed. ‘Thus police in neighboring towns were warned to be on the lookout, and at the same time 150 armed guards spread over the adjacent territory from the prison in fast automobiles. Other Precautions Taken. Coincident with the search outside the prison, vards and buildings were subjected to the closest scrutiny and sentries on the walls were put on a 12-hour shift instead of 8, so that more men might be available for the hunt. When the s d been unavail- ing Warden Lawes was convinced the men still were hiding inside the walls. Sentries were confident that the pris. oners could not have gone through tho gate or over the wall without be- ing seen. It was consi ired unlikely that the convicts, desperate as they were, could have taken to the fcy waters of the adjoining Hudson with any success. CLASS IS MUSTERED IN. Army and Navy Union Garrison Admits Applicants. s of the President’s Own rmy and Navy a class composed of Howard . Fisk of George Washington Post, No. 1, the American Legion: Past Comdr. Charles At a meeli Garrison, - Kohen,. of Vincent B. Costello, Post, the American Legion and Jewish War Veterans, and C. M. Taylor, Disabled ‘War Veterans, was mustered in by Maj. W. L. Peak, commander of the garrison, in the boardroom, District Building, last night. Resolutions of condolence were or- dered sent to Maj. Gen. Patrick, chief of the Air Service, U. 8. Army, on the recent death of the two good-will fiyers FX-OFFICERHELD INMELLETT DEATH - “loyd Streitenherger Is Fourth Man to Be Accused of Editor’s Murder. By the Associated Press C 'ON, Ohio, March 4.—Floyd Streitenberger, former Canton police- man, was held in Stark County work- house today, charged with the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher, shot during a newspaper campaign against vice in Canton. Streitenberger is the fourth man to be accused of the crime and the indictment against him, returned yes. terday, is in support of the State's contention that members of the police department were involved in an un- derworld plot to kill the editor. Two Serving Life Terms, Patrick McDermott and Ben Rudner are serving life sentences for the slay- ing, McDermott for first degree mur- der and Rudner for second degree murder. Louis Mazer is awaiting trial. Investigations In the slaying re- sulted 'in Streitenberger’s removal from the police department along with S. A. Lengel, former chief, on charges of intimacy with underworld charac- ters a short time after Mellett's death. The former policeman was arrested in Springfield, Ohio, yesterday. He probably will be arraigned next week, authorities said. Backed Mazer's Story. Streitenberger was first drawn into the case when he went to the defen: of Mazer, declaring the two were pres- ent in his home on the night Mellett was kille He indicated last night that the in- dictment was no surprise to him and authorities constantly knew of his whereabouts, e asserted his inno- cence and declared he confldently awaits the outcome of his trial. GEN. W. H.F. LEE PORTRAIT GIFT TO FAIRFAX COUNTY Supervisors Express Gratitude for Memento From Dr. George B. Lee of New York, Special Dispatch o The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, March 4—Dr rge Bolling Lee of New York has d to the citizens of Falrfax large portrait of his father, n. W. H. F. Lee, which hung in the courthouse at _The presentation was made through Representative R. Walton Moore and Judge James M. Love. In accepting the gift in behalf of the county the board of supervisors expressed to Dr. Lee their gratitude for this memento of a man long prominent in the 1life of the Nation as well as Fairfax County. After having rendered distinguished service to the Confederate cause during the Civil War, he established his home at in South America, whose bodies are now en route to this country for mill- tary burial. Capt. O. O. Howard, na- tional commander of the Army and Navy Union, was present and ad- dressed the veterams. Ravensworth in Fairfax County, until his death. He represented dis- trict in the Virginia Senate and later represented the eighth congressional district in the House of tiygs.