Evening Star Newspaper, December 12, 1927, Page 17

DECORATED FOR THE KING'S RETURN. of Egypt a brilliant reception when after an extensive tour of Europe. Cairo gave King@Fuad he returned home the other day The streets were festooned with electric lights and this huge light-studded reproduction of the royal crown was one of the decorations. TAKING PART IN CHARITY PRODUCTION. Alice and two of the ueens in the Junior League prod ith's. ter December Jucti Left to Copyright by P. & A. Photos. v SR T N GIANT NEW SUBMARINES JOIN THE PACIFIC FLEET. Three of the new V-type submarines riding at anchor in San Diego Harbor beside the mother ship, U. 8. 8. Argonne. Larger than a destroyer, the huge submersibles of this class have operations with the battle fleet. Portsmouth, N. H. cruising radius of more than 5,000 miles and are designed for overseas They arrived on the coast recently after being commissioned at ‘Wide World Photos. Miss Emilie Mason, a typical Winter sports girl of Calgary, who will reign as queen of the forth- coming Winter carnival at Banff, Canada, a high light of the Canadaian Winter season. ‘Wide World Photos. A THRILLING SPORT, THIS. “Swede” Mattson, veteran motor cycle racer, taking a spectacular spill in the recent national motor cycle hill climb classic on the San Juan Capistrano course, in California. Before this happened, he set a new speed record for the 500-foot climb up the mountainside. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. jon of “Alice in Wonderland,” at right: Miss Caroline Chamberlain Miss Mary Hale as Alice and Miss Eleanor Wilson TRAIN WRECK LAID " TORAIL TAMPERING {Track Bolts Removed, B. & 0. Officials Say, After Associated Press. 'SBURGH, December 12.—The re & Ohio Railroad office here s@"today that an investigation sed that removal of bolts from ends’ of two rails caused the of ‘train No, 19, the’ Detroit en route from Washington, at v Station, 30 miles southeast of iast night, killing one trainman two others. intimation that the train had deliberately wrecked, the rail- announced, came from a section who reported removal of the Railroad officials declared they mo owledge of who had tam- with the tracks, but said in- tion confirmed the section fore- report. man killed with C. H. Weeder ot McKeesport, Pa., a _baggageman. who ‘'was thrown from his car when 4t left the track, coming to rest with half of the car projecting over the Youghiogheny River, which ~runs parellel to the tracks. The injured were: Charles Beltz, Pittsburgh, the engineer, who suffered a broken leg, and Conductor John P. Kelly of Myers- dale, Pa., who was cut and bruised. A mnumber of the passengers were severe- 1y shaken up and cut by flying glass, but none was injured seriously. The wreck occurred on a left curve, the engine leaping from the tracks and burying its nose in a nearby Four coaches left the track, while: the others composing the train, three Pullmans, were not derailed. Beltz, in a hospital here, said that while driving his train Saturday night, be struck a large sandétone rock within a short distance of the scene of last night's deraflment. o UL FINE ARTS APPROVES PLANS FOR BUILDING Suggesting that the “tower” of the structure to housg the elevator ma- ehinery and the smokestack be raised poth horizontally and in height, the Commission of Fine Arts today an- nounced indorsement of the plans of Robert ¥. Beresford, architect, for the v proposed, office building at Fourteenth #nd K streets. The following letter was sent to Bates Warren, one of the group of business men backing the ct: "fl"reho plans for your proposed office pufiding on the northwest corner of Fourteenth and K streets, submitted with your letter of December 7, 1927, by Mr. Robert F. Beresford, architect, received consideration by the Commis- sion of Fine Arts at their meeting De- Sember 8, and were approved with the ® guggestion that the ‘tower’ of the Sutiding, especially designed for eleva- tor machinery, and the smokestack in the center of the bullding be increased ‘both horizontally and in height. The ‘material proposed for the building is satisfactory to the commission, De- taflg of the plans, including those for ‘the interior, were considered with the sarchitect and will be incorporated by lpisn 4n the develapment of the Draject.” M. CLAUDEL CHOSEN 10 RELIGIOUS BODY French Ambassador Elected to Particular Council, St. Vincent de Paul Society. Paul Claudel, Ambassador of France to the United States, was elected to honorary membership in the Particular Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul at its quarterly meeting yes- terday morning in the Church of the Holy Name, Eleventh and K streets northeast. In his brief address of acceptance, M. Claudel, who was an active mem- ber of the St. Vincent de Paul Soc- iety of France in its activities center- ing in the Notre Dame Cathedral, de- clared that relations between France and the United EStates “were never more friendly than they are at the present time.” Following M. Claudel's election, the council passed a resolution authorizing its secretary, Maurice F, Moore, to notify the Ambassador’s council at Notre Dame Cathedral, through the Sugerior Council of New York, of the local organization’s action in enroll- ing the Parisian council’s former ac- tive member as an honorary member. Mass Precedes Society’s Meeting. The meeting at which the French Ambassador was elected was preceded by a mass at 8 o'clock, which was celebrated by Rev. John W. Dowling, pastor of Holy Name Church. Follow- ing the mass, breakfast was served by the women of the parish to the mémbers, who then met in quarterly business session in the auditorium of the new Holy Name School. Following the presentation of re- ports of the various activities, John Hadley Doyle was elected second vice president, Joseph W. Berberich was appointed chairman of the special works committee, and W. B. Caston- guay was named secretary of that committee. The speakers included Ambassador Claudel and Father Dowling, George J. Cleary, president of the council, and William H. DeLacy and John H. Pellen, former presidents. Reports Outline Activities. Reports, as they were presented at the meeting yesterday, indicated that the couneil’s activities centers in such institutions as the District Jail, the workhouses for males and femalcs at Occoquan, the Reformatory at Lorton, Va.; Freedmen's, Gallinger and the Tuberculosis Hospitals, the Home for Incurables, Home for the Poor at Blue Plains, and the Industrial School for Boys and Girls. In addition to its institutional work, Particular Couneil has aided hundreds of needy families in the District. NATIVES WILL MEET. Society’s Annual Christmas Party Announced for Friday Night. The Society_ of Natives of the Dis- trict of Coluthbia will hold its an- naul Christmas party in the Washing- ton Club Friday night at 8§ o'clock. Members have been asked to bring toys to be distributed at the Found- ling Hospital, also to bring an apple, an orange and a potato aplece. Mrs. Elizabeth J. Stinemetz is chairamn of the general committee in charge o!] SITANZOMERALS e THE TIME AT YOUR FEET. This big clock tells you the time lrmn‘ the floor as you enter a San Francisco bank. The bank decided it wo be easier for customers to locate than a clock perched high up on the wall. It is covered with four layers of unbreakable glass. ‘Wide World Photos. COLLEGIATE ARDOR BRAVES COLD STREAM IN TUG-OF-WAR. Soph themselves into the campus creek in their annual tug-of-war the other day. And the seniors, muffied in their Winter coats, enjoyed the spectacle Brightest Comet of 15 Years Visible In Northern Hemisphere at Yuletide from the bank. NURSERY BENEFIT LUNCHEON PLANNED Mrs. Brooks Reitz and Others to Aid in Affair at Elks’ Club. For the benefit of the Holy Family Day Nursery, conducted by the Ursu- line Sisters, a luncheon, designed for Christmas shoppers, is being given to- day and Tuesday from 11 o’clock to 2 o'clock at the Eiks’ Club, 919 H street., Mrs. Brooks Reitz is chairman in charge of all committees, Mrs. J. J. Early is chairman of publicity, ~and Mrs. A. A. Auth, chairman of the luncheon. Hostesses will be: Mrs. J. J. Early, Mrs. H. L. Offutt, Mrs. T. P. Brown, Mrs, J. A. Phelan, Mrs. J. E. Colli- flower, Mrs. M. J. Keane, Mrs. E, O’Connor, Mrs. D, E. Barry, Mrs. M. Murphy, Mrs. C. A. Fisher, Mrs. J. B. Stanley, Mrs. Tucker, Mrs. William Wallace, Mrs. W. A. Simpson, Mrs. Peter Dorsch. They will be assisted by Mrs. Charles Reiter, Mrs. J. Brosnahan, Miss Estelle Bayne, Mrs. J. M. Roddy, E. Joynt, Mrs. Otto Ramler, ntyne, Mrs. Thomas E. . McDonough, Mrs. James er, Mrs. C. M. McQuire, Mrs. A. J. Scullon, Mrs. C. T. Cassidy, Mrs. C. H. Pearson, Mrs. H. Surguy, Mrs. H. Quiggle, Mrs, William H. Brown, Mrs. L. Stellar, Mrs. E. O. Cashell, Mrs. H. Vantine, Mrs. L. Gaylor, Mrs. W. Pritchard, Mrs. D. Connell, Mrs. Blair Bennett, Mrs. A. DeValza, Mrs. John Morris, Mrs. William Belt, Mrs. welS. A. Drury, Mrs. James B. Flynn, Mrs. H. W. Price, Mrs. T. A. Cantwell, Mrs. J. T. Ryan, Mrs. 8. H. Wolberg, J. A. O'Shea, Mrs. William O'Donnell, Mrs. C. J. Columbus, Mrs. William Yates, Mrs, B. Madigan, Mrs. M. Tavener, Mrs. Ray, Mrs. H. Seldel- berg, Mrs. McGilberg, Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Tappen, Mrs. Sadie Ryan, Mrs. Walter Frick. Mrs. R. J. Penn, Mrs. J. T. McGrath, Mrs. J. P. Happerman, Mrs. John Williams, Dr. Anna Johns- ton, Miss Betty Gainsberg, Miss Mar- garet Brown, Miss Sabina Wallace, Miss Margaret Keane, Miss Geraldine Hill, Miss Irene McGee, Miss Lillian Purcell. Daughters of Isabella will be repre- sented by Mrs. J, G, Haskell, Mrs. a By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,, December 12. —The brightest comet visible in the Northern Hemisphere in the past 15 years will appear in the early evening western sky during Christmas week, Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, announced yes- terday. Clearly visible to the naked eye, the comet on Christmas day will be about 456 degrees between the sun and the North Pole. It is Skjellerup’s comet, discovery of which at Melbourne, Australia, by F. J. Skjellerup, an amateur astronomer who formerly lived in South Africa, was made known on December 4. It then was reported of third magni- tude, but the observatory at La Plata, Argentina, two days later, sent word of an observation of what was sup- ‘Wall, Mrs. H. Carpenter, Mrs. E. Donovan, Mrs. R. L. Graves, Mrs. C. A. Gischner, Mrs, F. Swiggard, Mrs. A. McGillavary, Mrs. J. Moriarit: Mrs. L. G. Stafford, Mrs. E. P. Keisf ler, Mrs. 8. Deeds, Mrs. J. Flynn, Mrs, J. J. Downey, Mrs. James O'Donnell. Catholic Daughters will be repre. sented by Mrs. M. C. Baker, Mrs. G. Stelle, Mrs. M. Ray, Mrs. L. W. Auth, Mrs, F. Martin, Mrs. A. Young, Mrs. A. Ashe, Mrs. K. Ryan, Miss C. Auth, Mrs. M. Farrell. Ladies Auxiliary of the Hibernians will be represented by Miss Elizabeth Lynn, Mrs. Walter Frick, Mrs. J. Hap- perman, Mrs. S. Ryan, Mrs. R. J. Penn, Mrs. John Williams, Mrs, C. P, McGrath. Fairbanks Plans Cliff House. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., December 12 (®).—Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford have decided to become mod- ern cliff dwellers, with a hanging house and a seaweed garden. The announcement from United Artists’ studio of the famous couple’s determination to emulate the ancient Indians said Fairbanks and his wife would build their cliff home at Solona Beach, San Diego County. .- Little Princess Elizabeth, the 18- month-old daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, has her own private lenl T SCIENTIST DISCOVERS VOLUBLE BIRD. Dr. William M. Patterson, Columbia University research worker, with the little African finch, for which he claimed a vocabulary of 300 words in a recent address before a scientific gathering at New York. utters notes of a definite meaning. The bird, he said, does not sing, but Wide World Photos. “CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A YEAR.” And the dutiful husband behind these packages might have merriment. finds the latter tackling the job in a line to add_to the old words of This little idyl of Mr. and Mrs. Jones on a shop-early tour a rather serious frame of mind. ‘Wide World Photos. omores- of Villanova College pulled the freshmen off their feet and posed to be the same:comet and de- scribed it as of thessecond magnitude. Yesterday Dr. Shapley received word from the Astronomical Clearing House at Copenhagen that H. E. Wood, a South African astronomer, had com- puted the comet’s orbit. This indi- cates that the comet, now in the con- stellation Scorpio and south of the sun, is moving rapidly northward and will be in.conjunction with the sun December 15. It has the very high inclination of 72 degrees. At Berkeley, Calif, Miss Prescott and another astronomer have worked out: further details of the comet’s prog- ress. After December 18 it should be easily visible to the naked eye just after sunset, in a position just north of the sun. Its northward speed is three or four degrees a day. MRS. MEREDITH LOSES VALUABLE BROOCH Pin Believed to Have Disappeared Between Dupont Circle and * Mayflower Hotel. Search is being made for a valuable diamond: brooch, property of Mrs. Meredith, wife of E, T. Meredith of Iowa, former Secretary of Agricul- ture, which was_lost on the street be- tween Dupont Circle and Mayflower Hotel yesterday. The pin is of platinum and is set with three large oblong-shaped white diamonds and three onyx settings, the latter surrounded by several small diamonds. Mrs. Meredith, registered at May- flower Hotel, reported her loss to the police before checking out of the hotel last night. No value of the pin was given, according to the police re- port, but it is believed it is worth sev- eral thousand dellars. Ex-Mayor of Boston Dead. BOSTON, December 12 (4).—Nathan Matthews, four times mayor of Boston, died. yesterday at Massachusetts Gen- Hospital, of pulmonary embolism. was {3 his seventy-fourth yean ‘Wide World Photos. WINDOW IS SMASHED, $1,200 COAT STOLEN Other Thefts Reported to Police Over Week End—Students Robbed. A $1,200 fur coat was stolen when 4 plate-glass window at the store of Frank R. Jelleff, Inc., 1216 F street, was smashed early yesterday. 1t probably was several hours after the robbery was perpetrated when the loss of the coat was discovered, as the window was broken so silently that it attracted no attention. Loss of a muskrat coat valued at $100 was reported to the police by Hortense Blaine, 1620 Ninth street. The coat was taken from the home of the owner last night. Two unidentified colored men are suspected of having robbed a room in Minor Hall, Howard University, last |said. night. Clothing valued at $160, prop- erty of Elsie Crawford and Marion Farrar, was stolen. C. H. Olive, manager of Northeast Temple, 1123 H street northeast, re- ported the theft of a radio set valued at $100, taken early yesterday by an intruder who gained entrance through a rear window on the second floor. Theft of a gold coin necklace valued at $200 and about $500 in cash was reported by Thomas Bimbo, 1526 Seventh street. His house was robbed last night, he told the police. A burglar gained entrance to the home of Edward S. Dove, 1756 Cor- coran street, about noon yesterday and stole $27-in bills. Entrance was gained by climbing through a window from an adjoining vacant house. T Elks to Hold Benefit Dance. A joint benefit dance will be held by the Morning Star Lodge, No. 40, and Columbia Lodge, No. 85, Colored Elks, the evening of December 16, at the Lincoln Colonnade. The entire proceeds of the affair, which will also include a fashion review and a basket ball game, will be donated to the Christmas basket fund. . A Texas town has a cafeteria hotel where guests wait on themselves en- ILLEGAL OIL PRICE FIXING S DISPUTED Fluctuations in Petroleum Field Caused by Supply and Demand, Board Reports. Petroleum price fluctuations in re- cent years have been controlled by supply and demand and not by agree- ments or manivulations among oiF| companies, the Federal Trade Commis- sion has found after an extensive in- quiry. ‘The commission told Congress today it has been unable to find any ‘“‘recent evidence” of agreements or manipula- tions of any size among large oil com- panies to raise or depress prices of crude petroleum or refined products. It added that the inquiry tended to show that “price movements over the longer periods were controlled by con- ditions of supply and demand, but that these conditions were reflected imperfectly in shorter periods, partly because crude prices are determined by the decisions of a few large pur- chasing companies, among Wwhich there is generally little real competi- tion.” Unity of Control Gone. Calling attention to an agreement among officials of the larger com- panies to restrict production of crude petroleum in the Seminole field - for protection of their profits and for pre- vention of waste, the commission said it had noted a “growing sentiment for regulating production of petroleum so0 as to conserve the supply and pro- tect the financial interests of land owners and operating companies,” but it was not prepared to make recom- mendations in this regard, since the matter was now being considered by the Federal Oil Conservation Board. The inquiry disclosed that 179 men’| held 458 directorships in companies covering 70 per cent of the refined industry. In only four instances, how- ever, were there interlocking direc- torates that would have appreciable tendency to unify control, the report id. The controlling ownership of the several Standard companies has been widely dispersed since 1911, the com- mission reported, and there is no longer unity of control of these com- panies through community of interest. It was apparent, the report said, that competitive activity in the in- dustry has increased in recent years, but this has not prevented an increas- ing rate of profit in all branches. Re- turns were received by the commis- sion from most of the producing, re- fining and marketing companies, and for the years 1923, 1924, 1925 and the first half of 1926 the rate of profit on investment, based on the com- panies’ own figures, ranged from an average of 2.5 per cent in 1923, a year of depression, to 14.7 per cent in the first half of 1926 for all crude com- panies reporting, and from 6.1 to 11.3 per cent for the refining companies. Profits Much Higher. Profits of interstate pipe line com- panies were much higher, the report showing them to have exceeded 17 per cent in every year of the period 1921-1926, and averaging no less than 20.3 per cent. The profits of the industry for the SHNTHETG “AR” ADS SEA DIVERS Depth -of Operations Is In- creased, Beuret Says in Report. N A mixture of oxygen and-helium for service to divers has been shown by tests at the Washington Navy | Yard to make possible the condfting | of diving operations at greater dépths than formierly, without increased“risk to the diver, it was indicated in} the annual report of Rear Admiral J, D. Beuret, chief of the naval Bureati of Ct:instrucuon and Repair, made gyblic today. . The experiments were transferred from the Bureau of Mines at Pitts- burgh to the local yard, and it*was pointed out that they haye indX?led ) that the helilum may. permit a reduc- f tion of decompression time ‘to"about ' half that required for ordinary air. The ‘report also indicates that' the Washington yard has materially in- creased its activities as the testing station for ship models. The experi- mental basin, Admiral Beuret say: has been kept particularly busy dur- ing the year, the towing carriage ha: ing been in use 301 days out of a pos- sible total of 306. While the number of models tested, 56, is smaller than the number tested the preceding year, the time spent on individual models has increased, due to the larger pro- portion of self-propelled models tested. Diesel Drive Tested. Of the models tested, 21 were for pri- vate concerns or for other branches of the Government, 22 were airplane pon- toon models tested for the Bureau of Aeronautics, and the remaining 13 were models tested in connection with investigations of naval ship designs. Two of the models tested for private concerns were of special interest, one dealing with the application of Diesel drive to ferryboats and the other with proposed alterations in the Courageous class of Shipping Board vessels, for the purpose of obtaining better econ- omy and speed. An increasing proportion of the in- vestigations at the basin dealt with efficiency of propulsion and possible improvements therein. While some of the ideas tested were new, gains in also have been obtained by ng heretofore neclected details. 25 per cent of the crude production and about 45 per cent of the output of ‘the refined products. They had about 80 per cent of the refined prod- ucts 20 years ago. The totals for 1926 showed that the United States produced over 70 per cent of the world’s total output of ofl, Mexico more than 8 per cent and Rus- sia 5 '8-10 per cgnt. Tmports of re- fined products increased - eight-fold from 1920 to 1926, or from 2,916,000 to 20,900,000 barrels. 3 Both gasoline imports and exports increased during 1920 to 1926, but the increase for imports was much great- er than for exports. The great changes that have taken place in the petroleum industry in the last 20 years were ascribed by the commission as partly due to the separatio nof mos: of the subsidiaries of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey from the holding company in 1911, and periods mentioned, however, were much lower than the years before and during the war, the commission found. #aid to have at present-abou partly to the “great expansion of the industry through now, extremely prod- uctive flelds of crude supply and to insatiable demands for gaso-