Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1927, Page 12

TILDEN’S STRONG PLAY PUTS THE EVENING AMERICAN TEAM IN LEAD. Henri Cochet (at right) congratulating ‘Big Bill” Tilden over the historic Davis Cup after Tilden’s straight-set victory over the Frenchman in their singles match. Secretary of in the doubles victory yesterday put the American team in front in their defense of the cup. ‘War Davis, donor of the trophy, looks on. Tilden's sensational play ‘Wide World Photos. STAR, WASHINGTON, ‘UNDAUNTED BY TRANSATLAN the cockpit of her monoplane Amer George Haldeman, she made a non: Fla., preparatory to an attempted tr: flight tragedies have not changed ti D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER TIC PERILS. Miss Ruth Elder in ican Girl, in which, as co-pilot with top flight from Detroit to Tampa, ansatlantic hop. She declared recent heir plans. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. 10, 1927 LEGION HOSTS SAIL FROM NEW YORK FOR BIG steamship Antonia as it sailed for Bordeaux is typical other members of the American Legion who have sailed for France in the last few days. prised Legionnaires and their fami PARIS CONV of the enthusiasn s from Delaware, New Jersey and TION. This scene aboard the m displayed by the thousands of This group com- New York. Copyright by P. & A. Photos WINS JUNIOR GOLF TOURNEY. gressional Country Club, who won th on the Town and Country Club course, with Karl F. up. Hufty’s score of 154 for the 36 Kellerman’s. e Hufty (at right) of the Con- rict junior lf“" championship ellerman, runner- holes was two strokes better than ‘Washington Star Photo. e Di day for the bi; Rene Fonck, NAVY HALTS TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT BY NAVY FLYERS. Sikorsky plane Ville de Paris, in which they were to attempt a transatlantic flight with Capt. Lieut. Curtin (at left), navigator, and Ensign Steve Edwards (at right), radio operator, were After notified that their leave of absence for the flight had been withdrawn. with the wives of the naval officers at the christening. this christening ceremony yester- The three flyers are shown here Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. F. H. Jerdone, aircraft inspector of the Department of Commerce, whose job is not the safest in_the world. * He takes up new pilots seeking a license to fly. © Underwood & Underwood. THE LAST WORD FROM REDFER] distress notes dropped by Paul Redfern on This was the last of three attempted flight to Brazil as he.passed over a Norwegian steamship 165 miles off’'the coast of Venezuela. A writing, asked directions to the nea The note, now positively identified as in ‘Redfern’s hand- rest land. ‘Wide World Photos. PRINGESS IS BORN TOTOKID EMPRESS Nation’s Celebration Tinged | With Disappointment Be- cause Child Is Girl. By the Associated Pres TOKIO, September 10.—Japan's | celebration of the happy event at the| Imperial Palace was tempered today | by a feeling of some disappointment because the wee arrival was a princ- ess and not a prince. Nevertheless there was general re- | Joicing when the news that the young Empress Nagako had become a mother for the second time was made | known early this morning by the traditional booming of cannon, and| broadcast by radio. Bands played and flags were displayed everywhere. | Child Presented With Sword. Both mother and child were report- ed as “doing well,” and the infant’s weight was announced as 3,300 grammes, or about 7% pounds. | The first ceremonial, a few hours | after the arrival of the princess, con- | sisted in presentation to the infant| of an imperial sword 9% inches long, | together with a purple Japanese skirt. | next ceremonial, that of naming will be held about September 16. The name is chosen by the Em-|of the murder of Gilbert Lacy on| pe: or, who communicates it to the pr i sts at the imperial sanctua in the palace. These in turn report it to the imperial ancestors. The an- nouncement to the public is made by ! the household minister. Is Second The baby princess is the empres: second daughter. The first, Princ Shegeko Teru-No-Miya, was born De- cember 6, 1925, while Emperor Hiro- | hito was still prince regent. Hirohito | ascended the throne as Japan’s 123d | emperor last December death of his father, Yoshihito. | The empress, who is 24 @aughter of Prince Kuni and was m ried to Hirohito in 1924. Recognized as one of her country’s most beautiful 1so probably the most 1 the women who hav Daughter. women, she is nocratic of a | Jury Out but Hour at Second Trial UROPE COMBINNG ONLLS BORAH A Doctor Swallows Toy Balloon to Find Drowsiness Cause By the Associated Prees. CHICAGO, September 10.—Two Chicago scientists, using a toy bal- loon and a stomach pump, have learned to their satisfaction why objects blur and one feels drowsy after eating. Dr. Thomas Dyer Allen, ophthal- mologist of Rush Medical College, and Frank Pearcy of the depart- ment of physiology, University . of Chicago, were the experimenters. ‘While one swallowed a balloon at- tached to a stomach tube, the oth- er blew it up. In a few moments the subject be- came drowsy and had all the symp- toms of having overeaten. “It's distention of the stomach,” they decided. PHYSICIAN FREED OF MURDER CHARGE America Should Refuse to Further Cancel War Debts, | Senator Warns. | | | B the Associated Pr | An economic combination is being | | organized in Europe that is bound to militate against the United States in the opinion of Chairman Borah of the Senate foreign relations committee. “It involves all of the Europenn; countries and is a problem this coun- try must face,” he declared. here is very little this country can do, ex- cept to arouse public opinion and to refuse to further cancel the interna- tional war debts.” Senator Borah said this alleged combination’ “always had been my major argument against cancelling the debts.” “This combination also is going after South American trade,” he added, “and nothing is more convenient to them than the present Nicaraguan warfare.” At the same time Senator Harrison of Mississippi, a Democratic member of Dr. Reavis in Gilbert Lacy Slaying. | vara | and {in the State penitentiary, but upon | motion of defense counsel upon the | trial By the Associated Press. ORANGE, Va .September 10.—Dr. | George Reavis, Goochland - County physician, was found not guilty here last night by an Orange County jury the night of March 2 in the front of the physician’s home. The jury received the case at 7 o’clock returned the acquittal verdict after a deliberation of one hour. Upon the first trial at Goochland Dr. Reavis. was sentenced to 10 years that ir- relevant matter had been introduced before the jury, he was given a new trial by Judge Alexander Browning with a change of venue that carried he case to Orange for the second Dr. Reavis held that he fired his is the first | shotgun to frighten away a party | lor “drunken marauders” who would not quit his premiges upon his re- peated entreaties to do so. He testi- | fled that he feared bodily harm both [ of the foreign relations committee, de- clared in a statement that this Gov- ernment should take no affirmative po- sition affecting private French loans {in this country until France has | duetion. agreed to fund her debt. IFIRST COLORED FIREMAN | IN DISTRICT TO RETIRE | | ice Tonight After 27 Years’ Work—War Veteran, Capt. C. E. Gibson, 52 years old, the first_colored man_ever appointed in | the Was {tires tonight at 12 o'clock, after 27 | years’ servic Capt. Gibson, who lives at 4901 Blaine strect northeast, has been in command of No. 4 engine house for the past eight years. Entering Capt. C. E. Gibson Will Leave Serv- | hington Fire Department, re. | the | for himself and his wife, as members | pire Department as & driver, he had DUCE. DEFYING ECONOMIC LAWS. SEEN AS WEATHERING STORM Battle to Keep Revaluecl Lira AI)OVC World Price. (This is the last of two articles de- acribing the economic crisis that has arisen in Italy following decrees issued by Mussolini_to revalue the lire* above, * the “world-price level. contrary to the advice of economists.) BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. al Correspondence of The Star and_the | icago Daily News. Copyright 1927 | ROME, Italy, July 30.—The recent | revaluation of the Italian currency | (as shown in the previous article) en- | tailed an immediate fall in import | prices without any corresponding fall | in internal prices and costs of prg- | The immediate result wa abundance of cheap foreign goods, undercutting Italian goods, and great difficulty in exporting. Large cate- gories of manufacturers, faced with the loss of both home and foreign markets, seemed obliged to cut pro- duction to a minimum or close down altogether. The farmers, who had seen the price of wheat fall to half the price prevailing when they plant- ed (silk cocoons are quoted at about a quarter of last year's price), were refusing to harvest or simply aban- doning their farms. Farmers, manufacturers, bankers and merchants went to Mussolini and begged him to permit the lira to re- cede to a world-price level. But he | had staked his personal prestige on | the lira_at 18 to the dollar. He re- fused. By all ordinary economic rules this meant disaster. What did Mus- solini do? Demands. Factories Continue. He issued a series of decrees and governmental measures almost with- out parallel in peace time outside Soviet Russia. He commanded the industrialists to continue operating their factories even at a loss, making it clear that if they were closed with- out his consent the employers could be punished by imprisonment or de- portation under the legal provisions | | | derived from the famous ‘“charter of | labor,"” Through his governmental institute of exportation he arranged to financ the exports of certain factories or and quantity, so that the effective re- Then Mussolini attacked rents. A reduction in all rents by 10 to cent was ordered by royal decree and recalcitrant landlords were deported to_half-deserted islands. ‘With the two basic elements in liv ing costs thus presumably reduced, Mussolini proceeded to enforce a “‘vol. untary reduction of wages on the part of the workingmen, forcibly or- ganized in government-control labor union, and his national labor court demonstrated by adjudicating, with executive powers, certain test w disputes. But here, too, resis was rough, and results so far are only partial. The pa roll has perhaps been more effectually decreased by limitation of hours or by other less ju- dicial processes. Harvest by Bayonets. Then the agricultur came to complain. They had loyally obeyed the command to produce to the limit and had contracted large debts to that end, and then had seen the prices which they had understood were promised them, crashed beneath thei feet. Their spokesman said (accord- ing to a story which is perhaps apoc- ryphal, but certainly indicative): “If this continues we shall die on our farms.” “Very well,” was the reported re- ply, “I will collect the corpses.” At any rate, the substance of Mus- solini’s reply was as follows: “You say you have overproduced and the market has broken. I reply that it is your businets to produce still more. Produce to the utmost and leave the rest to me.” At Ravenna and elsewhere farmers simply refused to harvest their crops. The local militia took them in hand and with drawn bayonets compelled them to reap. Fighting Nature's Law The farmers gave notice to the gov- {ernment wheat committee that they ould not buy more fertilizer for the "all planting. Mussolini organized the 3 per | |Alabama Attorney General Reveals Double Flogging at Grand Jury Probe. | duction in living costs still is minimal. | | By the Associated Pre: | BIRMINGHAM, Ala, 10.—The severe flogging on two occa sions of John Lowell Bolton, 55, and | the burning of his residence by a band | of armeg and unmasked men was re- vealed here last night by Attorney General Charlie C. McCall. The attor- ney general is in Birmingham aiding in a grand jury investigation of mob whippings in Jefferson County. Bolton was ‘“beaten unmercifully with a large strap,” and kicked while he lay blindfolded on the ground, Mr. McCall said. Burned to Ground. Ten minutes after Bolton had been removed from his home for the second flogging, Mr. McCall said, set afire and burned to the ground. Bolton has been in hiding since the flogging, which occurred last June. No motive has been assigned for | the whippings. The first occurred in | | January, the attorney general said, | | where @ group of men came to Bol-| ton's home, a short distance from | | here, where he lived alone. is Entrance by Ruse. Two of the men gained entrance by | ruse. Bolton was seized and taken to a spot on a lonely road and flogged whip resembling a “cat-o-nine ‘ | | | wa In June a group of men again came | to Bolton’s residence and requested water for a sick girl. As Bolton turned to get the water he was struck | on the head by a member of the mob | and again was seized and taken into the woods and beaten. None of the men was masked, but all carried pis tols on both occasions, according to MccCall. TAXICAB DRIVERS’ UNION | September his house | | eneral of the Philippines were strong- AN BEATENTHICE, e, S, BAND RAZES HOME e Women so Mussolini’s Absolute Control Declared o B; | the Associated Press, AURORA, IIL, September 10.—Mr: | Hester Clemens believes she has | found the last word in spite fences. She appeared in Police Court against Orville Gray, a neighbor, whom she had had arrested on a technical charge | of assault and battery. She said Gray |electrified the fencé séparating their properties, the current holding her tast when she came in contact with it. | |Clemens was unable to remember the date of the shocking incident. A drain pipe that spilled water over the fence into her yard started the dispute with Gray, Mrs. Clemens testi | fied. MINTYRE 1S URGED FORPHILIPPINE POST | Quezon, Roxas and Osmena Support General to Suc- ceed Leonard Wood. By the Associated Pre MANILA, September 10.—Efforts by friends of Maj. Gen. Frank McIntyre to obtain for him the post of governor ly commended today by Manuel Qu president of the Philippine Senate; by Manuel Roxas, speaker of the House, and Senator Sergio Os- mena, all leaders of the majority party | of the Legislature. | Referring to a recent newspaper dis- patch from Washington reporting the activities in behalf of the chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the Army, Quezon made the following statement eaders of the Legislature will.ab- in from recommending any one as governor general unless their opinion | is expressly sought by President Cool- | idge. | The case was dismissed when Mrs. | BRANDPREDT * CERMAN AEGORD | | | Lauds Stresemann’s Pledge | at League Assembly to [ hid World Peace. | J By the Associated Prese, | GENEVA, September 10.—Speaking from the rostrom of the League of | Nations assembly before a large au- | dience, Aristide Briand, the French foreign minister, today delivered an- | other notable oration during which {he enunciated his conviction of the certainty that the rapprochement be- |tween France and Germany would | continue to develop uninterruptediy |in the interest of world peace. | _ M. Briand began by lauding Gustav tresemann, the: German foreign minister, who is representing Ger- |many in the assembly. He alluded |to Herr Stresemann’s announcement i | that Germany would sign the com- pulsory _arbitration clause of the World Court of Justice and wanted to be a pioneer in the movement for peace. M. Briand declared that this “noble discourse came as a ray of light to dissipate the mist.” “France on her part,” he declared, “will dedicate her every energy to perpetuating the Franco-German friendship and world peace.” Stresemann Startles Assembly. Stresemann startled the League of Nations assembly yesterday by an- nouncing that his country would sign the compulsory arbitration clause of the World Court of Justice. He also promised to be a pioneer in doing away with war. He looked forward to the day “when universal peace will no longer rest upon the points of bayonets, but will be based on the spirit of good- will and confidence.” The German move is regarded as a distinct advance and by some quar- ters as a challenge to the other great powers to take their own medicine Poland’s Move Eclipsed. Dr. Stresemann’'s action put In the shade Poland's move looking to the outlawing of wars of aggression. The | Polish proposal, considerably altered ASKS WORKING COMPACT‘: “If - Commissioner Guevara, after negotiations with the statesmen | _jof the party assumed a threatening | gccupied every position up to captain | ngton, | attitude. He stated on the stand that |~ Capt. Gibson served in the Spanish | he did not recognize any member of | American War and was present at the the alleged group, and fired in the| battle of Santiago. He was cook for rkness with no intention to kill| Admiral Dewey aboard the Olympi any one, and for 29 months was light-heav; weight boxing champion of the Nav: Japan. Her aid to have been heen empresse riage to Hirohi of the great powers, was introduced in the Assembly last night in the form of a resolution. 2 It brands all wars of aggression |as international crimes and would | commit all the signatory nations to | settle disputes of any nature by i e the difficult. pe- | fertilizer factories into a_government- Y e ok enterprises which |al semitrust and ordered it to sell at were overcapitalized jhalcprice. | ported in dispatches from Washington, | in favoring appointment of an Army man, whom he did not name, had ref- erence to Gen. McIntyre, then I say that McIntyre would make a good i governor general. Seeks Agreement With Companies 1 Relative to Employment—Other Plans Considered at Meeting. - otherwise in-| capable of long resistance to go bank: { {rupt right and left or else to reor- ganize down to a low capitalization The farmers informed their local banks that they could not pay interest or principal on their borrowings. | Mussolini ordered the banks to grant She possesses many being not only a and lover of music, tennis player. | accomplishments | student, linguist | but a 8ood S, ince normal Taxicab | SANDINO MOVE FORMS. icaraguan Autonomist Association | Founded in Salvador. ALVADOR, Republic of alvador, September 10 (#).—Nicara guan Autonomist Association w founded here yesterday. It has as its purpose a mpaign against the Stimson-Mon agreement which put an end to hostilities in Nicaragua. The organization also is pledged to support Gen. Sandino in his fight for “the integrity of Nicaragua.” A Greek library of the fifth century C. consisted of rolls of papyrus ept In rows of baskets, Born in Stafford, Va., Capt. Gibson expects to spend his retirement here. The retirement of Capt. Gibson was approved yesterday afternoon by the District Commissioners. The r tirement was re mmended by the Yo- { licemen and Firemen’s Retiring and ! Relief Board. He will be given a pen- sion of $104.16 a month. The Commissioners also approved the retirement of Pvts. Theodore Da- vis and H. W. Fletcher, both of whom had been found by the Policemen and Firemen's Retiring and Relief Board to be permanently disabled through disability contracted in line of duty. A pension of $87.50 a month was i granted to each. {CHANGE IN D. C. OFFICE FINANCING IS PROPOSED i A change in the method of financing the office of the inspector of steam | botlers, the only remaining fee office in the District government, probably will be sought at the forthcoming | session of Congress by the Commis- sioners, Heads of the bureaus of the Engi- | neering Dep: i11ments have urged that Congress bLe usked to pass an act providing the inspector of steam boil- ers with 'a wonthly salary and to require that fees collected be paid Imlo the general funds of the Dis- trict. At present the inspector is re- munerated for his work by the fees he charges for inspections. The Pons-Winnecke comet will be only 3,500,000 miles away from the earth on June 27, and may be barely visible on a dark night. with consequent losse bank credits were restricted by his own order, as part of the deflation campaign, and since the uncertainties ; of politics have made banks timid, the financial burden of carrying in- dustries through the difficult period .alls largely on the government. Balked by Retailers, Mussolini then set out to production costs. First he ordered his Fascist groups in all cities and towns of Italy to endeavor to reduce retail prices, ‘at least in proportion to the fall of wholesale prices consequent upon the rise of the lira. But the Italian shopkeeper is extraordinarily hard-bolled; he habitually counts his pennies and refuses to sell any given article for less than it cost him, re- gardless of whether he can replace the stock at a lower price, Prices have been reduced, but so have quality reduce | iloans, upon récommendation of the {local wheat committees, wherever needed, on any or no security, at { interest rates varying from 6 per cent to nothing, the individual farmer. The Bank of Italy and eventually the government budget will have to stand behind the banks. These measures and many others of the same type have been resorted to in the present crisis. So absolute is Mussolini’s control, effective or poten- tlal, over every actlvity of economic, social and political life that most rvers believe he will succeed in thering the storm. But some say the storm is more perilous than that which followed the murder of Deputy Matteott!. Then Mussolini had men to fight. How he is fighting, as it were, the ature herself, according to the needs of | | The recently organized | Drivers' Union at its first meeting last |night at 1006 E street voted to draw |up a working agreement for submis- |sion to local taxicab companies con- !sidering the employment of labor, and inaugurated plans filiation with the Maryland St eration of Labor, L. J. Cavalier, for af- e Fed. of president the 1 C. Davis, Frank Hurley, Sam Racoosin and C. B. Cole to draw up the agree- | ment. The followinz were elected delegates to the Central Labor Union: Mr. Jewell, J. H. Street, Thomas Lynch, Mr. Cavalier and J. A. Carr. It is believed that smooth-bark trees are less likely to be struck by light- ning that those with thick, furrowed bark, union | {union, appointed James Jewell, Harry | “McIntyre first came to these islands | during the revolution, serving from 11899 to 1902. He occupied a respon- | sible position on the ‘Island of Cebu. Despite difficult requirements, he dis- layed so much tact that no voice was sed against him. | “I don't know any American who {knows more about conditions in the | Philippines than' does McIntyre.” | Dr. E. A. Smith, Geologist, Dies. TUSCALOOSA, Ala., September 10 (#).—Dr. Eugene Allen Smith, 85, mem- {of the faculty of the University of Alabama for 55 years, State geologist for 53 years, and for scveral years offi- clal of the Geologlcal Soclety of pacific means. The Pales abandoned their original demand for pacts of non-aggression, owi to apprehen- sion that it might bd interpreted a an. attempt to revive the Gene protocol of 1924. Their resolution will be considered later by the Assembly. BB McKinley's Physician Dies. RANDOLPH, N. Y., September 10 P).—Dr. Edward Wallace Lee, one of the surgeons who attended Pres!- dent McKinley after he had been shet in Buffalo, died here after a Iohd illness. He was 68, He formérly was chief surgeon for the Burlingict Railroad in Nebraska and the EIk- horn Railroad. America, serving as president and vice president, died Thursday. £ The life of a chimpanzee in itw native surroundings is about 20 years.