Evening Star Newspaper, December 26, 1927, Page 17

ed their 1 have repeatedly ront row). (second from left diving operations are being carried on, after Secrctary Wilbur had directed t unless the weather forces a halt. WILBUR VISITS SCENE OF 84 group on the Falcon are Secretary Wilbur, Admiral Hughes, who accompanied him to Provincetown; Rear Admiral Brumby, in charge of salvage operations, and Comdr. Elisherg. After their conference the Secretary directed that salvage work continue. PETITIONING JURY ASKED TO EXPLAIN « Judge Charges Remus Panel Seeks to Inflience—Cites Berger in Contempt. the Associsted Press. INCINNATI, December 26.—Brand- ing the petition signed by tweive jurors of the George Remus murder trial meeking release of John 8. Ber- ger, a Bemus witness, from a perjury indictment as “a palpable attempt to influence this court,” Judge Chester R. Bhook Saturday cited Berger for contempt of court and summoned the jurors to appear before him Tuesday and explain. The petition, bearing the names of the ten men and two women who ac- quitted Rem estranged wife, Imogene, was handed 10 Judge Bhook yes Los Angeles exposition boybood friend of the form Jeg King,” 1 he Berger was mus trial. His drew & fa but the »r Ci n general of Remus |7 tements which he was sccused of perjury were his denial that he had axked Mre. Remus for § nd upon heir verdict 1:eeing ;erron the sole ground of dnsanity. AS & resuit of the petition the expo aition promoter not only was ciled for contempt, but also loxt his courmel Attorney Chsries Elston crew from the case and represent Berger in the ing. Elsum said he ki the petition until ke r Dewspaper Jerger became Bpologetic scathing censure by Judge He w4 the court he apologize and said be bind nothing to %o with the petition. Je said he aid yiot know its contents until four s hind signed it end that b A 1 have filed it hsd he Knows, oftend the court. e said § is in il swaiting u = Arew up the petition, but Jemu hie understood sore of the tated It Judge Ehook drastic action v pigned It Later b g had pout knowledge of Bppeist how te mignific betore bim OPENS PLANE PLANT. Levine Acquires Factory in Lung Island City, NEW YORK fes Jaevine 26 (A) 5 the owner Lamg Lusisnd slart et of wirplanes P pluns muiti ufter satlantic airplane announced for & great wobe built ung engineers e Weeks a snored 8ir yians drawn iy e met In Varls The newly sequired fucto Var u OOY Bpsce of 01 Teel hut Other sims aae plot eiec avails y butlding g on the iPresident Receives ) Christmas Message | i s for the slaying of his| rday by Berger, | promoter and | for or | SUB! in work on the S-4, under the di TRAGEDY. Left to right in this ‘Wide World Photos. FromFrozen North | Among the many Christmas messages received by President Coolidge was one from Donald MacMillan, the Arctic explorer, which arrived at the White House in a most unusual way. The mes- sage from Mr. MacMillan was sent by radio from a northern point in Labrador and was picked up by Donald Meserve, who operates an amateur radio -station at Hudson, Mass,, and was relayed by him through the medium of the tele- graph to the White House. | ‘The message contained greetings | for the President and Mrs. Cool- idge expressing the wish Mr, MacMillan and other members of the Field Museum scientific expedi- tion in Labrador that the Presi- dent and his wife have a happy (i'hdnmln and an enjoyable New ear. CHURCH TO GIVE PLAY “OTHER WISE MAN” Luther Place Memorial Edifice to| Be Scene of Three Presentations of Van Dyke's Clasi ¥or the third consecutive Christmas | season Dr. Henry Van Dyke's famous Yuletide legend, “The Other Wise | will be presented at Luther ace Memorial Church by a cast of 59 players, known as the Chapel Play %, who are being assisted by Kathe. Jigge am narrator and harpist, as Artaban the the “other wise y: Charlotte Harrl nother Parth sentations tonight, tomorrow and nolng at %15 each evening an b oof Christman by n diffcrent Misw Annie | antst at Luther ¥uest musiclun the Margaret Davis of in this| tund Miss | b Chureh, who is Conservatory of will render Wed | Cning’s program rie M Litfenderfer, pastor Pl regition, has in Iz shington 10 at tend these pr There 18 no | #dmnimsion fee oua there no ket A voluntiry oftering i the pros The Bese Davig et wenes will ashinglon org Anstadt, form will b be given nist 1h ithnore of Luther e e ntitio Hehr with mush; Jowing closely 1 sxle, B mely, Ty the Bky,” “Jy the Waters of Buby For the Buke of u Littde Chila,” “fn the Hidden Way of Borrow” and “A Vearl of Great Price,” chup n | . s Harvard Man Entertains, The volce on the air from ® to Iobert Bomerhy 4 sthlete, who recently of WHZ - WBZA os Juntor aunouncer, Harris, 21, comes newest Bowton belon Hurrin, Hary Joined the stuff PEACE GROUP LED | By the As The crew of divers who jon of Comdr. Edward Ellsburg This photograph was taken on the mine sweeper Falcon, from which the t the work be continued Copyright by P. & A. Photos. IT WAS A MERRY CHRISTMAS. Davis. members of the family made a rush around it. WHEN TWO HEROES MEET. Col. Charles Lindbergh, America’ famous lone flyer, shaking hands with Podolfo Gaona, who won his gl in the bull ring of Mexico. Gaona give an exhibition at the bull f visit. Around the Christmas tree yester- day morning at the home of Secretary of Labor and Mrs. James J. The sun had just peeped over the horizon when these small for the tree and all the good things Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. broke his retirement of two years to ght arranged in honor of Col. Lindbergh’s ‘Wide World Photot THE FLYING COLONEL RIDES TO A BANQUET ON A MEXICAN across the main street of Xochimilco, the Mékican Venice, to attend a banquet given in his Dwight Morrow, the American Ambassador, accom- of the city government. More than 500 guests attended the banquet. P! ferryin, honor g the Mexico City m panies the fiyer with Mflcflb PRESIDENT ATTENDS CHRISTMAS SERVICES. President and Mrs. Coolidge and their son, John, leaving the First Congregational Church after services yesterday. The services were the first held in the church since repairs to the structure were begun 18 months ago. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. unicipal government. GONDOLA.” Col. Lindbergh Wide W A DEER WITH A HISTORY. Although this little deer was once the pet of the notorious Mexican bandit, Pancho Vills, it demonstrates an affectionate disposition in this pose with its present mistress, Betty Bradley of Los Angeles. It was given to her on the death of the bandit leader, when her parents were in Mexico. ‘Wide World Photos. BY RUTH MORGAN Experienced Worker Will Take Active Part in Capi- tal Conference. clated Press. NEW YORK.—Years of devotion to | the cause of world peace are behind Miss Ruth Morgan's contribution to the Conference on the Causs and Cure of War, to be held in Washington Jan- uary 16 to 19, Miss Morgan, who is chalrman of the foreign-policy committes of the conference and vice president of the National League of Women Voters, was director of the Red Cross Nurses’ Bureau in France during the World War, and immediately upon her re- turn renewed her activities for inter- national peace and understanding. Bhe will be chalrman of the joint committee of readers at the Confer- ence on the Cause and Cure of War, a group that will pass upon 400 manu- scripts submitted by women all over the country in an effort to secure two definite und workable “peace plans.” Bhe is head of the department of in- ternational co-operation to prevent war, a peace-plan committes founded by the League of Women Voters in 22, and in that capacity directed the ague's three-year campalgn for the World Court At the clowe of the Paris congress lust year she was appointed chairman of the new peace committes of the International Woman Suffrage Al | ance, and as a result has been active in coordinating women's peace efforts the world over. In New York, where she makes her home, Mins Morgan has done a great { deal of work am head of the W Natlonal Defenwe Committes and us 1 member of the hourd of managers of FASHION CUTS APPETITE. for Trim Figure Is Blamed for Consumption Decline, NEW YORK, December 26 (#).— A combination of mechanical devices and fashion's dictates 1w responsible fur a lessened American appetite, the Nutional Industrial Conference Hourd sald in & report made public yester- A nt the a drop of 20 per cent in wh consumption from 1599 to 1 Use of mechanicnl devices which conserve e y and Parls fashions cmphusizing the slim woman are men | toned an contributing factors, wurvey whows a drop of 10 per per capita meat consumption United States since 1907 and At flou 3 in Plan Mexican Budget Cut, MEXICO CITY, December 26 (A). "he fNnance commitiee of the Chamber of Deputies hopes 1o reduce the hud | ket next year at least 47,000,000 pesos 1$28,600,000) below the ) budget, and may be able to reduce 1t as much s 73,000,000 pesos, The 1927 budget was 837,000,000 pesow, Ex-Crarist Official Di NICK, France, December 26 () Berglus Sazonoff, onee forelgn minis Trom Springheld, Maws , ug is prepur Juk for & carecr st the bl ter of the overthrown Kussiun Kimpire, died here yesterday, Youngstcrs Who ‘What is probably a curfous throw- back to a remote animal ancestry of man, according to Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology at the National Museum, is the practice of three children whom he has ob- served personally of walking, not creeping, on all four: These children were between 1 and 2 years old and seemed to walk nat urally in the manner of quadrupeds because it was the easiest way for them to get about and not because they were playing. He has seen this, he says, in an Indian, a negro and a white child, leading to the conclusion that the throwback occurs in all parts of the human race, and he is anxious to recelve reports from parents and others who may have seen the phe- nomenon, which probably would not be long continued, The child must walk naturally on the feet and hands and not progreas on the hands and knees, as bables do, or be playing some game in which it is trying to imitate an animal, Cases Are Cited. The first case reported by Dr. Hrdlicka was observed by him in 1898 among_the Hulchol Indians in the Slerra Madre Province of Mexico. This wan a little girl nearly 2 years old, who did not put her knees on the ground as did other children, but seemed to take naturally to the meth- 0d of locomotion of a little quadruped. The wsecond instance was in 1026 while Dr. Hrdlicka was waiting for a train at the Unifon Station in Wash- ington. He first noticed the child in the arma of a poor country woman. It was more than a year old and was crying vigorously. The mother set it on the floor after trying in vain to quiet it The 1t ALL CHRISTMAS MAIL DELIVERED IN NEW YORK d Set at Country's Greatest Postal Center—Fifty-Five Bubstations Cleared, vas barely able to hoy Asnociated Pros vV YORK, De were no Christinas presents or Christ mas cards last nlght in the 66 postal of New City, the muil center the United ember 26 —~There York n substations Breatest Hiates Meluted cards straggle in for packuages may but betore the carviers went home they had deliv- ered all the milllons of pleces of Chrlstmas matl that reached the gen eral post office in time for delivery to the substations in the metropolitan area One reason why the country's great est mall center could make such a vecord, Postmanter John J, Klely satd, was that this year the publie sponded more generally than to the plea to “mall early." ¥ ovel wenson, 12,926,000 outgoing letters ang packuges were handled, Hetween e cember 16 and 21 outgoing mall v celved numbered (§2,000,000 ploces, THROWBACK SEEN AS CHILDREN WALK NATURALLY ON ALL FOURS Museum Official Cites Three Cases of NEEDED IN EUROPE Displayed Habit of Animals. stand alone, but when he got on all fours he could move around actively. All the limbs were upright, but the knees were bent a litfle forward. Both feet and hands wera nearly flat on the floor. Dr. Hrdlicka's observations came to an end when the mother saw that he was watching the child and re- sentfully picked it up. She proved averss to answering questions. The third case cited by Dr. Hrd- licka was seen by him among one of the Bantu tribes of negroes near the Zambezi River. The child was a boy about a year old. It was walking steadily and quite rapidly on all fours, but the method of locomotion was less like that of a quadruped than in the other ci He has been informed, he sa by a Catholic missionary in the Bel- glan Kongo that the phenomenon is not unusual among the people of his mission district. For the time being, Dr. Hrdlicka says, this seems to be the easlest way of locomotion, due to the par- ticular stage of the muscular and skeletal development of the child, but there probably {s an added factor connected with the nervous system which {s hereditary from long-dis- tant animal ancestors. In most chil- dren this remains dormant, he be- lleves, but can be aroused acciden- tally during a limited period of life. Phenomenon Among Apes. The same phen has been observed of the anthropold a “Such a mental imp otherwise normal child, “can hardly be explained except as something of an ataviatio nature.” Dr. Hrdlicka's conclusions appear In the latest issue of the Journal of Physical Anthropology, of which he s editor, FEDERATION RESENTS MOVIE STUDENT LIFE Group President S8ays Pictures Por- tray False Version of Col- lege Activities. By the Associated P ST, LOUIN, Mo, . Decomber 28.—The modern movie which pictures colleso undergraduaten an vecklossly wasting thelr days fn frivolity fa deplored by Pdward 1. Miller of Bt. Louls, prest: dent of the Nutlonal Student Federa tion Miller mald he was, without reservi ton, vololng the opinton of 200 more delogates who recently gathered In_convention at Lincoln, Nebr, Miller, & senior at Washington and Les University at Lexington, Va., in slats that the majority of the Amerl can university and college undergradu ates are, contrary to common mqvie Interpretation fously and in a busi nenslike manner proparing themuely thelr professions, Wednesday, the biggest day of the {tion of college life, ‘Hiudents are coming more and more to resent Almdom's tnterpreta: Millor sald. He declaved playwrights and novells wore ploking out the extreme around WhIOHh In built & fantastio and evione: wus story, MORE U. S, GOLD Improved Currency Situation Held Still Precarious in Many Countries. BY WILLIAM BIRD. By Radio to The Star. PARIS, December 26.—Legal stabl- ing de facto stabilization of the franc situation in which there is no single important country in Europe with a fluctuating currency. This situation, compared with a few when scarcely a single currency. when the German mark was flounder- ing, and even the British pound was below par, seems almost incredible. But, on the other hand, in the opinfon of the best financial authori- ties, there is no occasion for over confidence. ability {s, indeed, pre- carious {n most countries, and will be maintained, {f at all, only through continued and increasing American credits. it Sums of Gold Needed. It is also foreseen that Amerloa must ship to Europe during 1928 vast sums of gold If world equilibrium ie to_be maintained. Roughly, American credits to Europe must approximately equal the suma which America recelves from Europe in the shape of payments on interallied debt In other words the whole serles of complicated tra actions which now are taking place and will go on happening in years to come, have as & net result the transformation of United States claims against European govern- ments into private American claims againat private European industry. This means that if fur any rea- son, such as financlal stringency in America, Wall Street ceases advane- Ing credits to Kurope, the whole financial balance of the world will be upset and payments on the war debt became Impossible. Alveady there is considerable alarm among European financiers and econo. mists over the reluctance of American capital to come forward on reasonable terma. Not only are exceasive interest rates belng asked, but bankers, under and_intermediaries fnvariably commissions and bonuses garded as nothing short One emersency loan ed I New York not long age not anly carvied almost § per cont fnterest, but commissions and holuses agEregating $1L,000,000, Some Conditions Harsher, In cases of Industrial and other pric vate loans, the conditions frequently ave even more harsh, and sevious doubits are expressed whether Kuro pean business can enduve fixed chatges of such magnitude. ty other Words, 1t In a krave question whether exveulve fnterest vates and exagger: ated commissions are ot the likelihood of bankrupte vepudiations. Hugsestions have heen heard that the Federal Reserve Hank might ad- vance oredits to the various European banks of us At normal*rates. Bimi 1ar trananctions huve been made in the past between Kuropean state banka, notably by the Hank of Bagland to the Bank 2‘ France, But the objegs lization of th8 lira in Italy, follow-| tn France, has brought to pass a/ ’Separale Prison To Be Built for Convicted Leper By the As NEW ORLEANS, December 26. —Erection of a speclal Federal prison within the limits of the res- ervation at Carville, La., where the United States leprosarium is locat- ed, to house Walter Pevton, negro, while he is serving a 10-year term fmposed November 14, after he plead guilty to mansiaughter charges, was ordered by Federal Judge Louis H. Burns. In sentencing Peyton, who is an inm of the leprosarium, Judge | Burns specified he was to serve his | term In the Institution designated by the Attorney General. No penal institution in the United States was found to have facllities for caring for a leper, 80 Judge Burns ordered the special prison erected at once In order that his sentence for Peyton to serve 10 years in a penal institution be executed. \BOY BETTER, MOTHER | | | Quantico Struck by Automobile at Dumfries, Va. Special Dispatch to The Star. QUANTICO, Va, December Accompanied by Col. George Williams the body of Mra. Willtams, his wite, who was killed Saturday by an auto mobile at Dumfries. was removed yeaterday to the family home at Nor tolk George, fr. Syearold son, who ered A broken lex and other in- jurles, is resting well at the Marine Corpa Hospital here. Mrs. Williams and her son were crossing the road when struck. Col. Williams occupied an automobile nearby. Thelr machine had been stopped while on the way hére. After obtalning refreshments, they started tack to the machine precedad by ol Willlams, He fust crossed the hixhway ahead of his Wife and son and entered his machine. when an automobile, driven by R. G Wigkleaworth of Woodbridge, Va approached. Mrs. Williams and_hev son apparently became confusad, hest tated, it {s sald, (1 the middle of the road, Wikglesworth made s daving Quve throush a pite of harrels {ana conerete avold steiking the woman and chik Who darted ek into the path of the machine. He leaped fiam - amt was st o the Victia, i ta st Mes \ the by were placed fn Col. Williama automobite and hurvied to the hospital iln-n- Mis. Willluns died about 10 | Oolook last niEht of fnternal injuries and several fractuves tnguest Wil be held tamas Marcella of Manassas, coroner Who Was not acvested, by b Wigglesworth | will attend thon 13 made from the American akte that (he Fwderal Reserve's ohavter does not permit such cvedits noany case, i€ private American oredits abroad continue plling wp on s equivalent to 10 and 13 per cont intereat, the fears of Buropean nances Breaking down from overloading wilt ncrease, [N TR T A DEAD, AFTER CRASH, Wife and Son of Col. Williams of 3 tox | Wocks in his eftorts to! IMEXIGAN OIL DELAY iIRIES U.S. PATIENCE | Failure to Reduce Court’s Opinion to Writing Tem- pers Enthusiasm Here. Althoush A pleasant impression was | made here by the news of the Mext- | can Supreme Court's opinion om the |oll land controversy, enthusiasm has | been somewhat tempered by the fact that the opinion read orally has mot ¢t been reduced to writing and offict- ally signed. Until the officials text gets here, the government cannot decide fSnally whether the controversy has been set- tled. Examination of the preliminary opinion leaves the oll companies some- what perplexed. for the decision, while £o0d as far as it goes, leaves so much | in doubt that the word “unsettied™ i& sedly by the ofl men in 3o ¢ & the case. | There is time, of course, for the [\ n to take account of clear up us passages, wait for r ases to pass on mooted points. Concessions Still Tssued. declision relates merely to those ich * acts were ‘s granted. bdut it of Also the ques- has rot bee {cleared | that the {auire | o revalidated ;and that titls may have to be subd {mitted to a_ government department {to pass on, dut there is no proviston { for Judictal review. There ts no objec- [tion on the part of the oil companies 10 the search for title as between the landlord and the present lease jowners, but there is no reason seen ja t ants as between the government and the original laad ;!«m extending for instance as far hack Ws the grants of the Spaniah crown | In 1918, under the decrve of Venus: thane Carrans, 24 volumes were s | sued les examined and this Part of the tithea = is 10 make a record ts of 1918, they cone At O Kovernment pur o~ | w0 e of the docume side sutol Poses, Land Status n Douds. status of more than seven wres of teft i doudt RCIION, ACCONING T estimates A 'he skl have clwared wp by shven by the Mexioan Owhers of militons o e requests for con and the pen to them far doubtiful paint, | Altosether the devivon ‘s reganted fas & step In the right dwotion, dut | there would be & much wore owm | Tortalle foaling if the aficial text werw here and the dectsion formaliy signed 30 that the Departient of State coud toll What the next move showht de AQuavemdn 1T D Boauty culture, oluding hatrdress- g, manivure and face Liftin now et the Women of Qreat Britate B0 & week. had M nat Alng 8 wn