Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1929, Page 15

MONDAY, JANUARY™ 14, 1929: A “gasser” fire in the California oil flelds. An unusual picture showing the collapse of a steel derrick under the fierce heat from a burning gas well in the Santa Fe Springs oil field, near Los Angeles, which shot flames 200 feet in the air. Keeping City aviatrix, up with the times in aviation. Miss Ruth Haviland, who has just been engaged for the unique job of The falling derrick cut an Kansas hostess of the Fairfax Airport of that city, at a salary of $100 a week. She also is provided with a plane for her personal use. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. BIG DRY LAW FUND PHYSICIAN 13 HELD | [SHITBY MELLON INWOMAN'S DEATH Fatality Alleged as Result of Secretary’s Statement Dims i‘ Prospect of $25,000,000 ] for Enforcement. the Associated Press. { The prospect of congressional ap- roval of the $25,000,000 increase for hibition enforcement voted by the _ appropriations committee is di 1#d by the decision of Secretary Mellon to oppose it, in a letter trans- mitted today to the Senate. ‘The Secretary’s communication will sent to Chairman Warren of the | nate appropriations committee, and will be presented simultaneously to the Benate with the committee’s favorable Teport on the proposed increase for the liquor laws’ enforcement. The appro- priation was proposed by Senator Har- ris, Democrat, Georgia, and the fund would be made available for the cur- gent fiscal year. ‘The Treasury Department, in dis- fpproving the appropriation, is under- stood to feel that the addition of $25,- 000,000 to the funds of the prohibition bureau for use in only one phase of its duties—enforcement—would not gpeed up the bureau’s work. Harris Criticises Mellon Statement. In a statement replying to the Treas- fury head's opposition to his proposal, Senator H: last night declared that #knowing his (Mellon’s) position and yecord on prohibition enforcement, he was naturally not surprised.” He add- that the Secretary’s views are in- dorsed “by a relatively small minority of our people and a great majority dif- fer with him.” Contending that the prohibition law &as never -iad a fair trial, the Georgia [Senator sald that in his belief con- scientious Prohibitionists in the Senate ‘or Bouse will not allow “partisianship ©or anything else to influence them” to wvote against his proposal “and striks @ blow at prohibition enforcement.” Wyoming Senator’s Position. Secretary Mellon’s letter sustains the fposition of Senator Warren, who op- posed the Harris proposal, but on differ- ‘ent grounds. The Wyoming Senator | objected to the increase on the ground ; 'that it would imperil President Cool- ! {dge’s balanced budget. Prohibition officials have pointed out | that under the present enforcement | appropriation, $13,500,000, for the cur- | yent year, they are unable to get their cases tried in the courts with any de-| gree of rapidity. To increase the arrests | through the added enforcement fund | would only result in causing a greater | congestion of judicial machinery. s Ny Printers 0. K. Compensation Act. GREENSBORO, N.C,, January 14 (#). «The Virginia Carolina Typog'mphlcll] Conference, in session here the greater ' part of yesterday, indorsed workmen's compensation as proposed by the North Carolina Federation of Labor, and put its stamp of approval on a form of secret ballot for the State. ‘The conference, attended by about 150 printers from all parts of the Caro- Dr. James years old, of 1437 Spring road, was to- day held for the grand jury for per- forming an illegal operation with elec- trica linstruments after he admitted before a coroner’s jury that the treat- ment he had given Mrs. Thora Marie Craggs, 21, who died at Sibley Hospital from blood poisoning, might have had the effect of an illegal operation. young woman told him she did not think she was in a delicate condiflon when she first came to his office, 1105 {came here shortly -afterward. | blood poisoning induced by an illegal | lllegal Operation With Elec- trical Instruments. Baldwin Rutherford, fizz Dr. Rutherford declared, however, the G street, on December 10. Although persisting he would not have used such treatment had he known the woman’s true condition, Dr. Rutherford, upon cross examination by Assistant United States Attorney Wil- liam H. Collins, admitted he did not make a medical examination of his patient. ‘The statement from Dr. Rutherford was made when the jury convened after deliberating three-quarters of an hour. When first asked if he wished to make a statement at the conclusion of the Government's testimony, the doctor replied he did not think he had anything to conceal, but would like to confer with his attorney before saying anything. His attorney, E. Russel Kelly, was delayed at the courthouse. When he reached the morgue he quickly asked permission for his client to take the witness stand in his own behalf. A verdict was returned within five min- utes after Dr. Rutherford completed his testimony. Obviously nervous and apparently still depressed from the death of his wife, George Henry Craggs, 23-year-old husband of the victim of the opera- tion, a butler employed in the 1300 block of - Eighteenth street, said his wife obtained employment as a maid early in December and was happy in her work., He declated he did not know she had gone to Dr. Rutherford for treatment. The couple were mar- ried in October at Newport, R. I, and Mrs. .Craggs was taken il at her place of employment, in the 2500 block of Tracy place, and removed to Sibley Hospital. Dr. Howard Ffancis® Kane, visiting surgeon of the hospital, de- scribed the case to the jury. Deputy Coroner Joseph D. Roger, who performed an autopsy last night, told the jury the young woman died of operation. Detective Sergts. George E. Darnell | and John Fleharty, who investigated the | case, exhibited an electrical tube, which they said was given them by Dr. Ruther- ford, as the one he had used in treating Mrs. Craggs. The physician said Mrs. Craggs vis- ited him about six times between De- cember 10 and December 28, when the last treatment was given. Following the inquest he was taken |go engine house in two. Associated Press Photo. Former birthday. Emperor Wilthelm of Germany as he nears his seventieth The ex-Kaiser, who will celebrate his birthday on January 27, is shown with his wife, the Princess Hermine, as they stopped for a Pphotograph while strolling on their estate at Doorn, Holland. —Copyrigt by Underwood & Underwood. Fifteen huskies which have just left Seattle to join Comdr. Byrd’s expedition in the Antarctic. The dogs were rounded up in the Northwest sec- tion and have been in training since November for the tough work ahead of them on the ice and snow in the FATHER FACES JURY ON MURDER CHARGE Man Said to Have Killed Road- house Keeper After Daughter Had Attended Students’ Party. By the Associated Press. CAMDEN, Ark., January 14.—As the result of a high school students’ party at a roadhouse last Fall a father today faced a jury here on a charge of kill- ing the roadhouse keeper. The father, F. E. Sullivan, 45, is said: by witnesses to have shot and wounded fatally Alex Hardin, 26, the innkeeper, shouting “I can’t let you ruin my daughter” as he fired. Sullivan accused Hardin of selling liquor to the party, which included his child. Sullivan did not learn of the party until his 15-year-old daughter, with five other students, was placed under bond recently to appear as witness against the roadhouse keeper. When he heard of the affair he went in search of Hardin, whom he met in an alley. Sullivan opened fire, fatally wounding Hardin, and then surrendered to nolice. He was arrested, released on $2,500 bond and then re-arrested on a murder charge last night. His preliminary bearing was set for today. Alvam: May Succeed Malbran. BUENOS AIRES, January 14 (P.— Frederico Alverez de Toledo, ambas- sador to France was regarded today as the lik=ly choice for ambassador to Washington to succeed Manuel Mal- bran, resigned. Senor Alverez will to the United States to represent linas and Virginia, re-elected all officers. | into custody and escorted to District ! President Yrigoyen at the inauguration Raleigh was sclected as place for Attorney Leo A. Rover's officc to have of I:gben Hoover and probably will “th: next meetile the amount of his hond fixed. v ~'rem By the Associated Press. Shadows of the World War are drift- ing across European affairs, notably in the working out of the self determina- tion of peoples in Jugoslavia, Rumania, the buffer states on the Western border of Russia and in French' politics. Asia continues to stir restlessly in its awak- ening. Jugoslavia’s new regime is being watched in every chancellery of the old world. thought concerning it, ranging from ap- plause to thinly concealed denunciation. Those who applaud have seen in King Alexander’s action in dissolving the National Assembly another breakdown in the parliamenary system. Others have conmmended the suppression of i certain political partles, imposition of censarsh,’pu and banning of racial and religious propaganda as a necessary pro- gram for creating true national spirit among the South Slavs. Rumania Shows Contrast. A direct contrast to Jugoslavian de- velopments evists in Rumania. There Juliu Maniu, peasant party premier, after starting freedom of speech and ssemblage, abolishing censorship and | opening the polls to all elements, has | now established nine Federal districts with home rule in each. The censorship coupled with rather rigid adherence by the new Jugoslavian ministers to the dictum of their premier, Gen, Peter Zivtovitch, that they must work more and talk less, have prevented | full revelation of the goal of the dic- tatorship. There has been a hint of a promise to return to parliamentary gov- ernment, but this is likely to be long | delayed. The King's cabinet must first | replete an almost empty treasury and struggle with complicated economic con- litions. ~Meanwhile the Croats and Dalmatians Wishes have fathered many a | Now it’s sun treatment for the At left: Col. Lindbergh 25 minutes late! rapher snaps the Flying Colonel as he lengthens his stride on arriving late Saturday N. Y, for the start of his transcontinental flight to San Diego, Calif., in his tri-motored office plane. Above: And A photog- away from Mitcl at Mitchell Field, about 10 days. —Associated Press Photo. teeth and gums. And in order to get it these Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. members spend a time each day on the roof in this posture, with mouths wide open to admit the health- ful violet rays. OUTSTANDING WORLD EVENTS OF PAST WEEK BRIEFLY TOLD mourn_ the passing of their hopes for early home rule and see in the an- nouncement that friendly relations will be cultivated with neighboring states a fulfillment of their dread that their Adriatic Coast is to be dominated by Italian influence under the treaties of Nettuno. Buffer States Favor Kellogg Pact. ‘The buffer states that separate Soviet Russia from Central Europe are de- bating the advisability of making im- mediately effective the provisions of the Kellogg treaty for renouncing war. This proposal came from Russia to Poland and Lithuania in the first place and was later extended to Rumania. Now Poland has asked why it was not 1 also presented to Finland, Ysthonia and ! Latvia, and Russia has responded that such a step would be welcome, but that | there is need for immediate bar to war as between Poland and Lithuania. Poincare told the French Chamber of Deputies that if it discarded his Armistice day cabinet it must take full responsibility for the important in- ternational negotlations that were start- ing. The Deputies may have shied at this or they may have heeded the pre- mier's Lincolnian advice not to swap horses while crossing a stream. At any rats they gave him a majority of 74 votes. Discard ‘Afghanisian Area. “Westernization” received a decided set-back in Afghanistan, and murmurs against the new Latin alphabet arose in Turkey. Simultaneously Moslems in Bulgaria objected to a Turkish proposal that 600,000 of them be exchanged for 600,000 Christians from Turkish domin- ions. They said they preferred the fez to the derby, veil to open-faced women and full Mohammedan religious practice to the modified- forms that Musthspha South Polar region. —Wide World Photos. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. APARTMENT THRIFT WEEK CHARITY AID Child Welfare Shop Chairman Backs Plan to Get Materials for Rummage Sale. To obtain further donations of ma- terials for the child- welfare thrift shop, 504 Tenth . street, Mrs. John Allan { Dougherty, chairman in charge, has !inaugurated a new system of observing a thrift week in apartment houses by consent and co-operation of the own- ers and managers. 4 ‘The plan has been started already in three apartment houses owned by Mrs. John R. Williams, a member of the committee of social workers backing the shop. The apartments are the | Anchorage, Moorings and Galleon. Placards have been placed in elevators and elsewhere in the buildings in- viting the occupants to donate cast-off materials which may be suitable for the thrift shop rummage sale. Arrange- ments are made to turn the materials in through the telephone operator. Other apartment house owners have offered Mrs. Dougherty the privilege of observing a similar thrift week in their buildings and it is believed much stock for the child welfare agency will result. The shop is conducted as a perma- nent rummage sale for the benefit of the Children’s Hospital, the Child Welfare Society, the Children’s Coun- try Home and the prenatal clinic of Columbia Hospital. Kemal has decreed for former subjects of the Sultan. Missouri’s oldest citizen celebrates his 114th birthday. Benjamin Hodge of Poplar Bluff, wh here is Lindbergh's plane soaring hell Field in a hurry on the start of the transcontinental flight, which is expected to take The giant plane is fitted up with an office for the colonel’s use as an official of the Trans- continental Air Transport. —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. He is 0 has no particular theories on how to live more than & century, except that he believes “smoking and drinking in moderation never hurt me.” —Associated Press Photo. AIR SCHOOL RATING | 49 KIWANIS CLUBS URGED BY BINGHAM - HOLD CONVENTION { fiying ~ schools Bill Introduced in Senate by Him Providing Examination by U. S. Agents. As a means of guaranteeing standards | | of civillan flying schools in the United | States, Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, president of the National Aeronautic Association. today introduced in the Senate bill to amend the air commerce act of 1926, so as to provide for the annual examination and rating of such schools. ‘The examination would cover the ade- quacy of ‘the course of instruction, the suitability and airworthiness of the training planes and equipment and the competency of the instructors. “In offering this amendment,” Sena- tor Bingham explained, “I had in mind the fulfillment of one of the greatest needs of American aeronautics today. Called Need of Young America. “America, particularly young America, desires to acquire wings, but there is a perplexing problem before the aspiring pilot in the form of his inability to obtain a course of instruction that not only will qualify him to fly when and where he pleases, but at the same time will clothe him with safety and make him of potential value to the areial reserve defense of the Nation.” Senator Bingham, after outlining the activity of the Government in promot- ing aeronautics by approving and licens- ing planes, examining and licensing motors and establishing airways and airport ratings, stressed the need for the devoting of similar attention to flying schools. “The beginner,” he said, “is left to| +struggle in the wilderness as to where 1to go for his aeronautical education because there is nothing on record that can serve as a guide to properly equipped schools where he may obtain | training that will give him a sound { foundation for a career in civil aeronau- | tics: _ The tential pilot. and there are thousands of them throughout the country today, is left to pick, hit or miss, an institution that may or may not qualify him for a career or a voca- tion in aeronautics. His choice may gtt!) 80 far-wrong as to cost him his . Thinks Schools Would Welcome Act. “There is nothing mandatory about | this rating. No one 1s obliged to apply | for it. But I believe that all good in operation today— schools which are conscientious and are werking hard to meet the requirements of training able pilots—will welcome the rating of their titutions by the De- Kflrunent of Commerce. Nothing will elp them more, be they large or small.” o Sugar Cane Destroyed by Fire. HAVANA, January 14 (#)—Reports to El Mundo yesterday told of pl‘i)xea in three of the sugar growing centers Capital District Committees Chosen on Underprivi- leged Children. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va. January 14— The Midwinter conference of the Kiwanis clubs of the Capital district, which includes the District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, con- vened at the George Mason Hotel, Alex- andria, this morning. District Gov. Harry G. Kimball, who presided at the ronference, named the committee which will carry on the work of improving conditions for underprivileged cgfiodm. which is the major objective of the organization. The meeting was attended by the presidents, secretaries and trustees of the 49 clubs, representing a membership of more than 3,000. Separate meetings were held for the presidents, secretaries and trustees, with addresses by inter- national and ‘district officers. The pres- idents’ conference was presided over by International Trustee J. Randall Caton of Alexandria; the se€retaries’ confer- ence by George W. Taylor, secretary of the Newport News, Va., club, and the trustees’ meeting by Roe Fulki in- ternational representative and editorial writer of the Kiwanis Magazine, Past District Gov. Russell S. Perkinson of Petersburg, Va., addressed the commit- tee chairman on their duties. Under direction of Elliott F. Hoffman, president, the Alexandria club enter- tained the visitors at luncheon. Following the luncheon Secretary- treasurer obert E. Turner, Norfolk, made his report for the past year. Other addresses before the meeting were made by International Trustee Caton, ene R. Woodson of Washington, who talked on “Vocational Guidance and Place- ment,” and Lieut. Gov. Charles G. Evans, Danville, who talked on Kiwanis education. ROVER REPORT FAVORABLE No Opposition in Committee to His Nomination. A favorable report on the nomination of Leo A. Rover to be United States attorney for the District of Columbia was voted by the Senate judiclary com- mittee today. The committee did not find it necessary to refer the nomina- tion to a subcommittee, because there - was no opposition. The Senate prob- ably will act on the report within a few days. Mr. Rover was an assistant District attorney for a number of years, and has been acting as head of the prosecutor's office since former District Attorney Peyton Gordon was made a justice of the District Supreme Court last year. e Albanian Cabinet Resigns. TIRANA, Albania, January 14 (P).— of the island Saturday n'ght with des- Tragedy entered the Manchurian question when two officlals of Mukden were invited to the residence of Chang! Hsueh-Liang, governor of the eastern_provinces, and there executed. 4 cane. Premier Kosta Cotta truction of 468,000 pounds of sugar | resignation of his cabinet to King Zogu. ane. fl'fi; m:ec st fire e repor’tfcg Ths al 'a) , Camaguey, where pol flicting opinions on the subject of the three are investigating the possibility of in- economic policy of the formed ; i newly has handed the resignation was the result of con- oy ?