Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. 10 8. Weather Tair and slightly colder tonight; low- est_temperature al morrow fair. Temperature—Highest, 42, at 2 pm vesterday: lowest, Full 1eport on page Bureau Forecast.) bout 14 degrees. To- 18, at 7:30 a.m. today Closing N. Y. Mark S ntered as xee O * post oilice, o. ets, P Washi ages 22 and 23 ond class matter on; D C. \GTON, ¢ Foening Slar. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Associated P service. : The only evening paper in Washingtor with the Tess news WYeVllVeidly'l Circu'ation, 104,651 D. (. SATURDAY, J y (#) Means Associated Press. DSPUTE PRESAGED INHAVANA WOVE 1 BAN INTERVENTION Committee on World Law Asks End to International Interference. U. S. LATIN AMERICAN POLICY SEEN IN DEBATE Delegation Makes No Objection to Discussion, but Proposal Is Viewed as Vital Issue. wrated Press January 21.—A declaration against internationa! interference in the affairs of another country has been written into a statement of principles by the public committee on international law of the Pan-Ame#/un Conferen: The declaration # tion of de facto g Whather this would brinT #ato public debate the policies of the United States n Latin America was boing discussed by observers today. It was stated authoritatively on the behalf of the United States delegates that they would interpose no objec- tions to such discussion. Th2 position ©f the delegation is that there is nothing | to hide. nor is thore anything to regret fn the American Government's stand There has been no indication that any | @clegation will bring the matter up. | Holds to Fundamentals. i The Washington Government. how- ever. has not changed its position on many fundamental points of national | licy, regarding which its delegates Er! at the prooer time doubtless will be adamant. Specific points are not| mentioned. but it is understood genera! that prohibition of international inter- | wention is one of them. | The public international law com- mittee recommended. in principle, that “No State may intervene in the in: ternal affairs of another. | “A government is to be recognized whenever it fulfills the following co: ditions: { “1. Effective authority with a prob- ability of stability and consolidation. | the orders of which government, par- | ticularly as regards taxes and military service, are accepted by the inhabitants | “3. Capacitv to discharge pre-exist- ng international obligations, to con- tract others and to respect the prin: eiples established by international law. Objection Raised. The project for codification of inter- mational law, prepared by the Confer- | Ty Tecommen | in treaty form. . Objection to this was raised. however, and the recommendation of the points in prin- eipie was approved. They will be sub- mitted thus ;n t&t‘\:m?mfer:oe, . P! of tes tween bunal was advocated in an interview | by Gustavo Guerrero, chairman of the | committee on international law, and by repute hostile to the United States. | He said he would seek to have the | eonference adopt um\';nuons mnxm" fng | compulsory arbitration in cases of - | ternational dispute, such arbitration to b conducted with lhm: ‘World Court at | ‘Th- Hague as a medium. He :a‘: he strongly disapproved of any move for the establishment of a | pan-American court for such arbitra- tion. declaring that such a board could | only be obtained at great expense, since The Hague Crurt already existed with | emple fa-iliti>s Hague Court Stressed. The Hague Court. o, he said. could assure impartiality adjudication which a pan-American court could mever attain. beczuse & pan-American court’s interest would be bound strong- 1y to the subject under discussion. Only two committecs were called to sreet tday They were the ones de ing with communications and economic lems. Dr"'X'bl"w secretariat generzl is hopeful that a plenary session of the confer- ence will be possible Monday. Bupport of the delegations of Urugusy and Baivador for the inclusion in the proposed codification of an equa! rights for women cl has been plecdged 1o workers of the United States Nationa Women's Party, who have established s lobb; the conference. Drive on Delegations. Ciarence M. Bmith. party presi- @ent. and Miss Doris Btevens chair- woman of the committee In charge of promotion eontinue thejr effort v line up delegations favorable to their ¢ Cuban women may be the first their sex 10 Latin America W win the right 1o voe, it vas szid semi-officially 8! the Cuban state department Loday Bpecial referendum clections set for the early part of May and recently ordered by the Cuban Congress, sre ex- pected v approve of voues for women by & heavy majority PRESIDENT OPTIMISTIC. | | 1 i Mrs Mr. Coolidge Believes Havana Parley Will Bring Besults, 1t i the expressed hope of President Coolicge that the Pun-American Con- ference meeting in Havane will result 1 much good for all concerned He has il 3t be known that he left Havana Tuesday grestly pleased with his reception there not only by the Cuban peopie 506 the Cubati govers ment. but by the delegates W tie con ference as well Mr Coolidge hes wid fr s revurn that one of Le most plrassnt periences during bis vis o Havana was the drive v the hackenda of Presi Machado of Cubs, Which is Jocated iful spot s tew miles beyond he corporste Bmils of the Cubmn capi 16 This ride gave blm an opportunit W sce the countryside nd L siudy aonditbone snd the people st Close Junizt . Crippled 8hip Reaches Port ATHENE, Greece, Junuary 21 ) i Briush cruser Caledon, which wes % colliston with the llahan Autures in Lhe Agean Bes yerterday reachrd Karystor on the Islana ol withh her bow badly dumnsged was owed W Piracus of the Antares was i and the stewsrd sleIner Jis Vol The Antares The fust oifice Vs o W e o _r adio Programs — Page 30 [FATHER. FEARING ELDER SON . WILL LOSE JOB, OPPOSES ADKIN !Visits Whi_t;fit;;e to Pro-‘ test Against Appoint- ment as Judge. | { ¢ HaRRIs & EWINE. : 8 Explains -That Attorney's | Success Will Mcan Oust- ‘ ing of Clerk. | Milton Adkins, year-old re- tired Government employe, father of | Jesse C. Adkins, local attorney, who is | an aspirant for appoiniment to the vacancy on the Supreme Court of the District caused by the resignation of Adolph A Hoehling, jr. called at the | Whit2 House today to appeal personal- I¥ to President Coolidge not to appoint his son to this place. The White House was not only dsppl_\(’ | tmpressed with the unusual nature of JESSE C. ADKI this request. which probably is unpre- | SE C. ADKI cedented in the annals of presidential emotional father District for more than six years and | prior to that time was a clerk in Police Court nearly 20 years. He added that his son has no profession, and that it would go hard with him i s thrown out into the world at his ag With considerable emotion, he ex- plainod that he was unsuccessful in &n aitempt to persuade the younger brother to withdraw from consideration even though he reminded him what would happen to William. appointments, but by the man in which the elderly made his app~ The elder Adkins did not cident, but his story was Executive by one of his see the nveved secre- Pleads for Other Son. to the gray-haired father. t of his son Jesse to the brother, and older to los2 his po- he same oench s son, Williem S. Adkins, sition as assistant clerk in court. It was pointed out that the law pre- vents a relative of a Federal judge from being employed in any capacity in ihe court. The father told how his older boy, william, about 52 years old. has been a clerk in the Supreme Court of th2 1 0 Court Rule Forbids OANLEUROPEAN A vt R Forbias S CHEN ML o etore e MARLY-LE-ROY, France, Janu- ary 21.—The cock may not crow ba- fore dawn in this town, once the home of Louls XIV. Nocturnal crowing is prohibited as an unseemly disturbance of the peace by a decision of the court on the complaint of Paul Gruyer, writer. He said the racket from a neighboring barnyard had kept him awake for weeks and impalired his health Th> court held that the rocsters may but must remain silent until the night is over. Gruyer was awarded 1 franc as damages. Jean Arnaudin, who owns the offending fowls, was ordersd to keep them quiet or move them fariher from town. SMITH MAY FIGHT B YEARSFOR SEAT Sces Attorney General. The elder Adkins went personall see the Attorney General. who is ass ing the President in considering avail- ables for this post, and then came to the White House where he wanted to the facts to President Coolidge. (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) to Miovement Revived by Pos- sibility cf Progress at Hav=na Parley. | | BY PAUL SCOTT M e Star and ( Copyright. 19 PARIS, January 21.—The possibility of closer pan-American unity resulting from the present congress in Havana sems to have given a new stimulus to the pan-European movement. While superficially Europe appears as t 2s neverthe- | discordan! ever, there are, less. profound forces which have been ting since the World War to transform this ciscord into perm:nent harmon; TTRER. Br Cable 10 Th g0 Daily News Europeans all see that in the last | wer they lost their previous world | supremacy to the United States. -They | feel that another war would ruin them | beyond recovery for all time, to the profit of America and Asia. Have Common Interest. ' Governor Not to Appoint Him Financially, European nations have | & common interest 1n wnal they ace !\ to Senate for Fear of In- juring State Rights. capable for the present of mkln.;_ox- tensive foreign investments themseives. | Economically, they realize that they can hope to hold their ovn with the United States in world markets only when, like the United States, they can | first dzpend for business and profits on a vast interior market, using me-rely surplus production. for foreign trade No single European country except | primitive Russia now offers a sufficient interior market. but if Europe’s 400.000.- 000 population were combined in a sin- By the Associated Press DWIGHT, Ill., January 21.—Frank L. Smith is going to take his time about planning action to gain the seat in the United States Senate which that body has denied him “There’s no great rush,” he said upon nis return from Chicago conferences gle protected market it would then be | with Gov. Small. Mayor Thompson and | greater than the United States: nence | the tendency loward tarll agreements | there's nothing to say for publication It is an open secret that Dr. Mayrich | POW. 2 of Luxemburg, president of the Euro-| Smith's friencs scemed to be agreed pean Steel Cartel, hopes that this great | that the Dwight banker would fight for trust will result ultimately in the politi- | his Senate seat, if it took the entire six- cal grouping of Prance, Germany. Bel- | year term to which he was elected L e Will Consider Advice. smerion | Metes Move, | The tmpression party leaders have re- Nor is the significance of this trend | ceived is that Smith’s immediate plan 18t upon competent American observ- | is o consider the views and advice of ers. Dr. Kiein, head of the Bureau of | his intimate friends, as well as gain Forelgn and Domestic Commerce at|the opinions of other members of the Washington, recently spoke of the | Republican party. edatory plans of the European car- There scemed, however, little likeli- ““while Col Frederick Pope, New | hood that such counsel would be of York engineer, considers them an indi- :ind e rlmnzr hl;\ s't:;d. \;hlt‘hu: ;h;l cation of ol c - | he was properly elected and certified to e on o mmercial Monroe doc- | [, e ed States Senate. and that he Meanwhile & meeting of the central| holds that place, despite the Senate’s mittee of the Pan-Furopean Unijon | refusal 1o accept him ) held In Paris, This or- _ Gov. Bmall in his statement yester- 1on openly advocates political and | day made iU clear that the State of Europe, except | Iinols regards Smith as having been v Britain It is known | legally chosen, and that he would take e the sympathy of such states- | N0 SLeps either o make Smith an ap- For Minister Briand of | pointive Senator or o make other France. Chancellor Seipel of Austria, | MOves W give the Blate the two Benate and President Loebe of the German |Fepresentatives to which it 1x entitied Reichstag 1t president, Count Couden- | Refuses to Recognize Action. Sant ek ¥ auiad in o Parle| por him to appoint the Dwight man At unon of France and her little entente | would be in effect an acknowledgment | milies @5 a nucleus 0 which all other | of the Senate’s right in refusing to ac Ml:ul"nurnn countries could then gradual- | cept the original certificate of elec- y adhere iy The Pan-European Union strongly | “Inis attempt of the United Btates ports the League of Nations, espe- | Genate to declare a vacanc/ In the Uy the League's endeavors for low- | constitutionsl representation of 1lhinots 2 custon rriers and popularizing | in the United Btates Senate.” he sald It5 next con- | “is wholly unwarranted, In my judg- be held 1 Parts i November | ment, and constitutes & dangerous at- sent year { tempt 1o nullify the rights of a sov- lereign Btate and the people thereof " Aside from the statement by Goy Hmall there has been no comment from the principals Involved—8mith, party s Eutopeanism. While theoret- | leaders or Bamuel Insull, utiities head worla wide dn o scope, the League | whose contributions to the Smith vam- wiwayr Las concenuwated economically | palgn fund started Lhe investigaton and Duanclally on Kuropean problems, | which ended W the Senate’s “thumos while politicatly it has wvoided Asiatic | down” voue American question and de ! energetically W Europesn ques- other Republican party leaders, “and Backed by League of Nations ap- ws w Orgen League URGED TO KUN AGAIN. e pussibility of U nnents his wlarmed some Jovers of peace Velends ‘Think He Should Make New What's Race to Prove klection, the use of unifying continents,” they Hhnols seems destined to have only iy, I alterward Uie continents merely | gne-half of its constLtutional represen- oppie one wnother? “This will not end | tation 1n the United Blates Senate dur wir but will make bigger wars than | ing the present Congress unless Fra e Lo Smath resigns or mandamus Iherefore some Anternational think+ | ceedings are brought 1o compel the 1y have begun U urge o regional politl- | retary of Btate Lo provide for an ele cal orgsnization within - the larger | ton of & Benator framework of the Lesgue of Nations, | Goy Len Simall's announcement yey giving each contnent complete political | terday that he would refuse L recognise wubomomy while binding sl together [ the action of the Benate In declaring Wiow o genersl pesce pact and in Ui | Smith's seat vacant means that Tilonks e ULENILATIBN endesvors [ will have only one Benator st least un- [0l December, 1020, unless an election 1n forced W Hinois this yoar Friends of Bmith take the position that the governor cannol appoint him until he has formally handed in his reslgn “Thist, Bmith has indicated e would not do However. some of Bmith's friends (Continued on Page 3, Column 8.) world organiz- wroused and Director Polaceo 111 CHICAGO. Janusry 2) (A Polacco, musical director of Chicagi's Civie Opers. is 31 with sppenaicilis |in & hoepital. Physicians have advised Phim tha! &n operation probebly wili nol be necessry, % x Glorglo - | closed, but those closely assoclated wi bogin their concert at dawn | as urging open customs and the | ¢, the Senate, the governor believes | GEN. GOFTHALS DIES 0 LLNESS AT HOME N NEW YORK (Panama Canal Builder Sug- | | cumbs After Attack Sev- eral Months Ago. BURIAL AT WEST POINT PLANNED FOR ENGINEER| :Cumple!ion of Famous Waterway | Project Capped Brilliant Career | of Noted Military Leader. | By the Assactated Press i NEW YORK, January 21.—Maj. Gen George W. Goethals, builder of the | Panama Canal. died at his apartment | today. | The announcemsnt was made by a son, who said his father had been il | for several months. Interment will be {at West Point. | His two sons and his wife were at his bedside when death came. W for Two Months. ‘The nature of his illness was not dis]A | 3 | him in business said he has been seri- |ously ill for two months and that hope | for his recovery had been abandoned |=2veral weeks ago. His fllness did not | | become generally known until today | " After his retirement from active serv- | ice with the Army he dropped out of | the public eye to a great extent, but |continued as consulting_engineer with |offices in New York. He was one of | the principal advisers of the port of New York authority during the con- | struction of the Holland vehicular tun- | Inel. He also was an adviser of the | | port authority in its other projects, in- | cluding bridges now being built between | Staten Island and New Jorscy and the proposed bridge across the Hudson and to Fort Lee, N. J. Achieved Great Feat. | Gen. Goethals will be recorded in t history as the man who accomplished | one of the greatest feats of enzincer- | !ing and construction since the Egypt-| | lans completed their mighty pyramids | —the cutting of the Panama Canal. | While the American forces under { Goethals found on the Isthmus of Panama the rcmains of many years' toil by several French companies who had attempted to dig the canal, what | |the latter accomplished was of little, i1 | |any. aid to thos who finally crowned | their efforts with almost undreamed of | success. It was the ingenuity, per-| sistence and brains of the Army engi- | neers, the remarkable efficiency of the workers who labored under them. and the unusual organizing ability pos- sessed by Goethals that did In less than a decade what the experts of other nations’ declared could never be | done. l Gen. Goethals was appointed by | President Rooz=velt in 1906 to take over | the work of digging a canal across the | isthmus. Previously several civilian en- | | gineerg and private construction com- anies had undertaken the task at the vitation of the Government, but their slow progress and apparent inability to surmount the countless problems con- fronting them had heaped volumes of eriticism upon the project, until for time ft seemed destined to <o the wa: of former attempts. Goethals gathered about him as aides the most eflicient body of Army officers at the call of the | Government, and proceeded to Panama | with an organization almost wholly ! | miiitary in its personnel. | Linked With Gorg: | No mention of the Panama Canal and | | the officers who made it possible would | be complete without naming the late | Maj. Gen. Willlam Crawford Gorgas, chief sanitary officer of the Canal Zone. | the man who “cleaned up™ the {sthmus. protected the lives of the workers and | made the digging of the “big ditch” | practicable His name will remain indelibly linked with that of Goethals | After seven years of unremitting | labor, wherein he drove himself as hard | as_relentlessly as he drove the (other Isthmian tollers, and during which he met and conguered almost | unbelievable obstacles of nature and sclence, Gen. Goetha)s reported to the Congress of the United States and to | the world that his lifework was com- | pleted, and that the two American | | continents at last were scparated by a | navigable waterway. The memorable success | Goethals was bullt largely upon the | | fatlure of his predecessors, chief of | | which were three French companies. | | One of these had turned the first spade | of earth on the fsthmus more than half | (Continued on Page 2, Column 6) 'FOUR NEW GENERALS | ; PROPOSED BY DAVIS' jAppoinlment of Nine Temporary Licutenant Generals Also Urged by Secretary. | l | | of Gen By the Associated Press Congress was asked today by Secre- tary Davis of the War Department o empower the President to appoint four temporary generals and nine temporary | Heutenant generals, so that Army offi- cers holding high commands would | { have rank commensurate with that of | | the temporary admirals and vice ad- | mirals in the Navy | | The secretary said that it was the de sl of the War Department for (he chlef of staft and for the commandeis | [of the Panama, Hawallan and Philip- pine statlons o have the tank of o full general and for the commund of the nine corps areas In the United Blates th have the ank of full leu tenunt generals “IUis & principle of military organt atlon, recognized by long experience he wrote Chatrman Morine of the Houpe military — committee, “that rank should be commensurate with co mund. There now exists & serfous alf- uation in the Aimy by reason of the fuct that the rank of the chief of ataff of the Army and the commanders of territorial departments and corps areas 18 not commensurate with the reapon- sibilities of these high commands.” ‘The Becretary emphasteed (hat the |)ru!umm| wonerals and Neutenant gon- erals would 1 no way increass the of fcer personnel i the Army aa the War Department only aaka for Lemporary rank for ofcers to be asslgned o the posta enumerated. The proposal wonld not become elfectiyn until after the present chief of the Army Cleneral Al Maj. Gen, Charles P, Bummierall, Vacates, | enrly nineteenth centuries | George Romney ANUARY 20, 1928 ~THIRTY PAGES, * i IH HEY! N/ WHATS) BIGGEST OPTICAL GLASS MADE WITHOUT FLAW AT BUREAU HERE ! Standards Experts Turn Qut 70-Inch Disk, Setting Record. 'Has Been Cooling for Past Nine Months to Avoid Cracking. Many months of painstaking effort and intricate scientific processes brought 0 the Bureau of Standards today the glory of completion of the largest per- fect piece of optical glass ever manu- factured. A great disk of glass, 70 inches in diameter, 11 inches thick. weighing 3.500 pounds, cast on May 7 1927. was found to be practically per- fect when the furnace containing the glass was uncovered today in the pres- ence of & distinguished group of scien- tists gathered tn Washington 0 wit- ness the conclusion ofa scientific ex- periment which Director George K. Burgess of the burcau declared will have a far reaching effect on the sclence of manufacturing optical glass. ‘The disk. which has been cooling for more than nine months and is the largest prece of optical glass ever cast in this country, will now be drilled at its optical axis. sent to an optician to be ground. polished and “figured” on one surface until it becomes parabolic and then sent to the Perkins Observa- tory at Ohio Wesleyan University. Dela- ware, Ohlo. The Government is to be compensated by the observatory for T | | TWO CENTS. COMPROMISE FARM BILL HAS PROSPECT OF HOUSE PASSAGE Measure, With Equalization Fee Eliminated, Gains in Favor. MicNARY-HAUGEN PLAN SEEN DOOMED TO VETO Two-Year Delay in Relief Legisia- ITIZENS PREPARED TOPLEADD. . VOTE Joint Committee Discusses‘ Plans for Congress Hear- |: ing Tuesday. Detailed plans for the presentation of the voteless District'’s plea for na- tional representation in Congress and the electoral college, at the hearing be- fore the House committee on the ju- diclary nex: Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. were discussed at an enthusias- | tic meeting of the Citizens' Joint Com- mittee on Represeatation for the Dis- strict of Columbia yesterday afternoon in the Board of Trade rooms, Star Building. E. C. Brandenburg. Pau! E. Lesh and nry H. Glassie, who will represent Joint committee, indicated their confidence that a “strong” case has been prepared for the District, and they announced their readiness to be- gir th argument for natiopal repre- sentation. Reports New Sigmatures. Theocore W. Noyes, chairman of the joint committee, who presided. stated that other speakers will be on hand to represent labor. the Federation of Cit- tzens’ Associations, the Ciilzens’ Ad- visory Council and women's organim- tions. He reported on behalf of George H. Brown. aciing chairman of the spe- clal petition committee. that new sig- tuction of the di ss disk of this size 100-inch reflector at Mount Wilscn, which was east in France. An cntirely new process, de- vised by A N. Pinn of the Bureau of tandards s:aff, was used in its manu- facture. Mr. Finn collaborated i the work with P. H. Bates and Dr. A Q Tool of the bureau. No American firm was willing to undertake the manufac- ture of a reflecting mirror of this size. The disk is to be used as concave | (Continued on Page 2. Column 3.) CAPTAL TO LOSE FAMOUS PANTIGS Collection of Old Masters to Be Taken to New Phila- delphia Museum. shington will lose before the end of the month one of the two or three most importunt collections of oid mas- ters in the city This is the McFayden collection of 43 paintings of the most celebrated British artists of the eighteenth and which has been on exhibition for the past five years in the National Art Galle The collection contains 43 pietures by such artists as Sir Joshua Reynolds. Sir Thomas Lawrence Willlam Hogarth, James Constable, 3. M Henry Harlow Morland. John Crome, John John Linnell and Sic Henry It s one of the most valu- atiens of pletures ever her In the United States and has attracted thousands of visitors to the National Museum where (wo rooms hive been devoted to 1t w George Hopprier Turner, George ve brought tog New Museum Ready. The collection was the proverty of Jobn M McFadden. Philadelphia mil- Honaire, who willed it in trust to the Sity of Philadelphia with the provision that within seven years it should find a permanent home in the City Arts Museum, then in process of construc- tion. Pending the permanent housing of the collection, Mr. McFadden's will | nrovided that “the trustees shall exhibit the pletures in a gallery of equal dignity with the Metropolitan Museum in New York " It was accepted by the Naflonal Musenm with the understanding that it would be withdrawn s soon as Phila- delphia was veady for it The trustees have notified D William H - Holmes cucator of the National Gallery. thad they now are prepared (o withdiaw the pletures The collection represenis (he eream of what wis probably the most im- wortant of all periods in the history of Bhician paintin t vanges (rom the vemarkable adolescense studien of the ehlldren of the tsh nobllity by Romney and Raeburn to the intmitable atudies In light of Turner - the latter artist represonted by only one ploture, “Ihe Burning of the Houses of Pavlia- ment * Hogarth Represonted, Hogarth, the caricaturist and painter of the rougher side of English lfe n the middle eighteenth century, also W reprenentod by one painting, “A Qone versation at Winstead House " Nexiden (hese the palntings o be e« maved are rRe Romney, portralts of M hy Oresplgney, Lady Grsntham. o Fineh Mra Orouch and Wealov: nymbolle study Little o Hir Henry Raeburn, portralta of Ool Ohavies Chiistie, Ma or John Camphell. Master Thomas Rix- pand, Bir Alesandor Shaw, Lady Rel. (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) FISHER CONFESSES STARTING 60 FIRES natures have been obtained to the pe- tiilon which citizens will present to Congress at th> hearing. He mentioned signatures of representatives of the Cit- tzens’ Advisory Council and the Thea- ter Owners’ Association of Washington. Gideon A Lyon. reporting for the radio and screen publicity committee. announced that arrangements have been made for the showing in local on picture houses. beginning next of brief, but spicy. captions an: bulletins “reflocting the spirit of the demand of Washington for representa- tion. Chairman Noyes disclosed that a delegation from the Council of State Legislatures will favor the Districts cause at the hearing next Tuesday. It was stated by Mr. Lyvon that President Kirby of the council has indicated a willingness (0 broadcast a plea by radio from his home city. Houston, Tex. in suppart of the Capital's movement for the right to vote in the National elec- | tins and o be represented tn Cone gress. Pyromaniac Admits Respon- sibility for Scores of Blazes Since School Days. | | _Confession that he started more than 60 fires in his lifetims has bsen made by John Joseph Fisher. who has admitted that he 2 of the 7 major conflagrations hers Monday Gallinger Hospital authorities today continued their observation of Fisher and indicated that it would be several days before they would be ready to give a report on his mental conditton Meanwhile Headqu Detectives Varney and Brodie continued to work on legal ang the case with a view to getting the detalls of the fres he has started Dr D Percy sald yeste Foundation in Campaign. Following the formal meeting. Mrs W. E. Chamberlin said that the S B. Anthony Foundation will sgn the Petition nov being Those present At the meeting. i ad- dition to members already. mentior incinded Mr. and Mrs. Georse A Rick- er. Evan K Tucker. K S Hoge. Rode Cottrell, N Graham Powell, Robert Harper. Dorsey W Hyde, fr.. Ivan C Weld. E € Graham. Dr_ George R & Bowerman, Mrs Anna K Hendley he is still studying his mental condi- Topham. ¥ " gl o Stall ank Hiran uu“:u enable him to give a delatied tles. Judge Mary O°Tool | Fisher has admitted to Dr. Hickling M3 Edna Johnyton Mrs louise O | that e has been Tvolved i incendiary | LROCEE. Joha Clagett. Proctar, Jesss fires since his second year in high C Suter and M. C. L. MeNary wohool. His examination has “Seen pro- ductive of one odd Incident. At & time when his condition appeared to be per- fectly normal, he suddenly ran to | window. opened it and cried: “Fire!" The physicians i the room could | | detect no s'gns of fire nor sounds of }nl"‘ sirens or apparatus, but about two minutes later the sound of sirens was distinetly heard Fisher, 1t was explained. could hear the characteristic shriek of & fire sten long before it bocame audible to ordi- DAY parsons Hickling i day that he h indicate Rosenwald Gives Byrd $10,000. CHICAGO, January 21 (. —Julius Rosenwald, millionaire phianthropist, has presented & $10.000 check to Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, explorer and transatlantic fiyer, to aid in fnancing Coamdr. Byrd's proposed Antarctic ex- padition My Rosenwald expressed “tremendous admiration” for the ex- plorer Burglar "Borrows” $20 in Pleasant Call After Cl\attin_é With Woman Victim After paying an solielted call on Mrs Geovgipa Dusinaki i her room [ & boarding house at 1418 Rhode | | 1sland avenue last night. durtng which | [ courtoously assisted her to cure & Jeough, smoked a couple of clgaretien land ohatted pleasantly for an hour and [a half, W untdentified, well dressed [ young man bid her w cheery good-by, borvowed 830 from her dresser and | of her notitylng the polive. and at the (aded gracefully dnto the night end of that thme ha succeedsd W con- Mrs. Duginskl entered her toom about | vinetng her that it would be & very bad | B ovlock and found the man who, ahe | idea to say anvihing o the palive o | sald. anawered the desoription of |’\rluu_\b«nlv else for that watter. Then | well Kno ‘Oal” rifllng her buread | he left i the direotion of Fourteenth and AKInG & general mess, She poos | street. toated st his slovenly procedure, | When the landlord came I about she saild, and he deststed [ 11 olek Mis Dustiaki tWid him it Wha! are vou doing she | would be e 1t he looked the ot demnnded doar alter this and during thelr oo “What versation ahe divulged the faet ihat countered she had had & visiar who sipped out, 1 live here * Ahe never calied the palice. but thev “On " came around today and found out all | AL LAt polnt, sald Mrs. Dustinkl, she adout i 2 coughed toudly several times and the visitor put his left hand i his pocket and gractously affered to shoot her to | oure the cough She satd she thought [a lMtle water might help and he | escorted her to the Fathroom while she Ot A drink For the next hour and & half Mrs Dusinaki and the burglar conversed on the general subject of the advisability | here are vou dolng here ne tion Looms Unless This Ses- sion Takes Action. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Passage of a co bill. with the eq nated, during the seemed more pr any time December. Members of the House, all of whom must be re-elected this year. are begi! ning to feel that would be advan- tageous to them to go into their cam- paigns with farm legislation an accom- olished fact. They are waking up to the fact. too. that if no farm legisla- tion is put through and enacted 'aw at this session, there is litt 1 until 19300 In ather words, if ock leg'slation now. the farmers will have to wait for another two years. Veto Seen Certain. They feel certain t o President would veto the McNar if it continues to have as one of principal features the equalization fee. he would veto such a bill ar t session or in the short o present bable today than at nce Congress convened in in the short session. in any eve: Some of the members of the House and of the Hous® committee on agri- culture who woted for McNary- Haugen bill in the last Congress have announced during the last week they are ready to vote for the bill witnout the equalization fee. Fourteen to 16 of the members of the House committee. it was learned today. would vo'e to report favorably the revised McNary- Haugen bill wit t the equalization fee. This would leave a bill creating a Pederal farm board. setting up com- modity stabilization corporations. pro- viding a large revolving fund to assist co-cperatives in marketing. prodably a fund as large as $300.000.000. But the bill would stop there. Group Loses Power. For the time being. it appears that the group wheih has been contending for the McNary-Haugen bill including the equalization fee, or nothing. has lost legislative control of lhmlla-. | is group are ting vigorously to regain lost ground and are massing all the farm sentiment dossibie 10 block this move for & com- Members who are still willing to vote for the equalization fee. are saying that lere is Do sense in simply putting 5ill through to have the A ht lead 10 considerable explanation when the members get back home. But telegrams are going out from the die-hard MeNarv-Haugenites, arging the people back home to come to their res and to bombard mem- Ders of the House with demands for the equalization fee. Haugenites Gain. House members Republican leader- ment in Kansas m exception for i the last Cor vote for the W equaltzation fee gation, ton although Wi has Been in Wa days working hand ders @ Une for th Represapt the Anh X ¢ ihe =t Haugen program s one af th £ot s “aan ¢ \ with one ~Haugen ! Who voled R he MeN: for several Strong of L wWho was one N ]I o § Anged my v Know Qolidge woud weto a Amg he equais U fe There B no noed passing & DI sty 0 have B owioed A mews DAY sioerity for A leghuiathn wmight e ALIACKYd Fr pursaing seh & course. TO take sueh & stand means voiing for VO farm legiiation watd 1980 Action Calted Vital “1for ane Am nat wilting to & wmuch a8 U have favared NMoNa v mn“n AR D e past. T want t see the House 0 A% B0 a8 1 can fowsed that program. and there & wwod thas can be done lnard siving e markets e probieins of (e farmer withouwd the saualimtion fee. That & delter Wan wothing * Backers of the equalisation fee pan howe 1 defeat W the Senate sav AhAl bt be sont thare By the Heuse without The e plan But it ihe Hoose Pasen sweh & B ete Wil be geead e 10 put the DR ihvough the T S DAL CRRINIE WAy B deae WU arther delagn % s,