Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1930, Page 7

L AMHERST PROBES CAP-BURNING FIGHT Student Honor Committee Head Says “Some One” Sub- stituted Kerosene for Water. By the Associated Press. AMHERST, Mass., February 24 —Am- herst College officials had a long con- ference yesterday with Scarab, senior student organization, as to the origin of the freshman-sophomore cap-burn- ing battle Saturday, in which five un- dergraduates received severe face and body burns and the clothing of many others caught fire. H. H. Groskloss of Pittsburgh, presi- dent of the student honor committee in charge of the cap-burning, exoner- ated his companions of any blame. He told the faculty that the original plans of the sophomore class were not car- ried out, in that some one had substi- tuted kerosene for water in the sopho- more attack on the unsuspecting fresh- men. At the time of the battle a truck filled with sophomores appeared on top of College Hill. The second-year men formed in a body and advanced on the ireshmen. When they had scattered pails of kerosene on the assembled yearlings the flaming torches carried by the sophs quickly set fire to the clothing of several students. Rolling in the snow was the only means of putting out the flames. None but relatives were permitted to Vvisit students who had suffered burns in the fracas. Del C. Kenyon of Orange, N. J, president of the sophomore class; Frank Finsthwait of New Ro- chelle, N. Y., and Willlam G. Trench- s<d of New York City, the more seri- Jusly burned, apparently were out of unger and resting comfortably, accord- wmg to the physician in charge. President Arthur Stanles requested &carab to start an inquiry among the scphomores today in order that drastic Weasures may be taken immediately w=th those responsible. AIRLINE BATTLES ILL LUCK AT START New York, Rio Janeiro and Buenos Aires System Is Involved in Brazilian Court Fight. By the Associated Press. RIO JANEIRO, February 24.—With two planes out of commission and an- other libeled by a law suit, the New York, Rio Janeiro and Buenos Aires Air Lines yesterday sent another air- plane speeding along the east coast of Brazil inaugurating its mail service to the United States. The Nybra Co. has had to buck all sorts of difficulties in starting its east coast air mail. After the airplane Tampa broke a pontoon in landing on ‘Thursday at Santos, Brazil, with let- ters from Argentina, Ralph O'Neil, head of the company, himself brought the mail over 400 miles of rough roads to Rio Janeiro Friday morning. while the airplane Porto Alegre was libeled at Ria Janeiro by a Brazilian company, that claimed the Nybra had not carried out a contract. O'Neil sent for another plane from i Bahia and loaded his cargo of mail aboard it, but this plane was damaged in landing at Bahia again. Early yesterday morning a plane took off again for Para, where it will refuel and with fair luck the mail should Teach Miami, Fla., by February 26, or five days of flying from Rio Janeiro. REPORTS RABIUM SUPPLY IN STONE MOUNTAIN Emory University Physicist Says Test of Springs Discloses Un- usual Radio Activity. By the Associated Press. DECATUR, Ga., February 24.—A quantity of radium lies locked in the granite of Stone Mountain, acco to a report made public here by Prof. James A. Hootman of the physics de- partment of Emory University. Prof. Hootman's revelation is the re- sult of extended investigation of the nine springs originating in the moun- tain. These springs, his tests show, contain 35840 curies of radio activity, as compared with 16,500 curies in the fa- mous Joachimstahl spring in Germany, ‘Wwhich has its headwaters in the Pitch- blende mine, from which a large amount, of the world’s radium has been obtained. ‘The report of Prof. Hootman, which ‘was made before the Georgia Academy of Science at Agnes Scott College here yesterday, made no estimate of the amount of radium in Stone Mountain, nor its availability. i oo “Bomb” Proves Cookies. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. February 24 (P).—What with all these stories of bombs being received in the mails, & Jacksonville housewife was quite per- turbed on receiving a package from \ Cleveland marked “cookies.” It some- how didn't seem reasonable. So she telephoned the. police, who advised her to soak the package in water before opening it. She did. Opening it she found two dozen water-soaked cookies. And only then she remembered she had ister in Cleveland The makers advise it Don’t blame your radio set . for poor reception withworn. out tubes. Once a year, at ‘lust, it needs a brand new set of tubes. The set builders Jadvise RCA Radiotrons. RCA Radiotron THE HEART OF YOUR RADIO SET 4 THE COPPER FIGURE OF KING WHO LIVED IN 1900 B.C. IN CHALDEA IS FOUND By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, February 24—Re- rés believed to have 0} vgk:mrlnc.;u :’h&ch inhabited Ur o!m Chaldees before the flood, and the cop- per figure of Rim-Sin, a Sumerian king, who lived about 1900 B. C., have been unearthed by the joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British Museum. The remains of & pre-historic factory also were dis- covered. Detalls of the discoveries were con- tained in a report from C. Leon Wool- ley, fleld director of the expedition, made public last night by the uni- versity museum. “One discovery deserves to be sig- nalized,” Mr. Woolley added. “Two in- scribed clay foundation cones lying against the ruins of a brick wall led us to start the clearing of the build- ing, and almost at once there came Expedition Unearths Remains of Pre-Historic Factory and Temple of Enki, Sumerian Water God. brick-buflt foundation box, in which stood still undisturbed the copper fig- ure of the king, bearing on his head the basket of mortar and before his feet the stone model brick inscribed with the dedication of the bullding. “It was a Temple of Enki, the water god, and its restoration by Rim-Sin, King of Larsa in 1900 B. C, whose statuette we had found, gave its title to the ninth year of his reign.” Two Die in Kerosene Blast. HUGO, OKLA., February 24 (#)— Misses Etta and Lula Heensley, sisters, were burned fatally in an explosion yes- terday when kerosene was poured on a coal fire in the kitchen stove at their home here. They died at a hospital two hours after the explosion. Improved highways in Asia more than to light in the wall's thickness the smalldoubled in mileage last year. %d&lyrrrto' TILSON ANSWERS Wilsonian Triumphs Declared Misplaced in Time and Misrepresented. Representative John Q. Tilson of | Connecticut, Republican floor leader of the House, today took exception to the | comparison of the first year of the| Hoover and Wilson administrations | | made by Jouett Shouse, chairman of | | the Democratic national executive com- mittee, in Topeka, Kans. Mr. Tilson asserted that the Sh speech Was “extraordinarily inaccurate.” “Mr. Shouse included in his resume | of the first year of the Wilson admin- | istration those things which were ac- complished during the eight years of that administration,” Mr. Tilson said. CRITIC OF HOOVER ere are the facts about the out- the new - standing accomplishments told- his audience occurred in the year of the Wilson administration: Should Credit Republicans. “The farm loan banking system was created in 1916 and not in 1913 and was the result of the investigations carried out by Republican administrations. “The Federal Reserve first e act was worked out in previous Republican administra- tions. “Repeal of the Panama Canal tolls exemption for American ships was en- acted in 1914, “Authorization of the Alaskan Rail- road was given by the Congress in 1914 and not 1913. This road cost the Fed- eral Government $60,000,000, has proven to be a total failure and is causing the loss of $1,500,000 annually to the Fed- eral Treasury. “Mr. Shouse points to the Under- wood-Simmons tariff act, which, of course, the Republican party is per- fectly willing to credit to the Demo- cratic administration, since it placed all agricultural products on the free list and provided for a reduction of indus- trial rates which would have so lowered weges as to have disturbed the Amer- ijcan standard of living. Had it not been for the World War this Democratic tariff act would have brought ruin both to American agriculture and industry. “Mr. Shouse points to the downfall of the Huerta government in Mexico as EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, .D..C., MONDAY, FEBRUALY another accomplishment of .mmuman:hnm produced cl exico from which that friendly republic has only recently re- covered.” DEMOCRATIC INROADS FORESEEN BY SHOUSE Bases Prediction on ‘‘Scandal of the Tariff” and Stock Market Collapse. | By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, February 24.—Jouett Shouse, Democratic national executive committee chairman, here to address the ‘Women's Jefferson Democratic Club to- day, predicts a “vastly stronger” Demo- | cratic contingent in the seventy-second Congress. He based his prediction on what he termed ‘“the scandal of the tariff” and the “worst stock crash in the country's history.” “The Republican majority in the Senate is split in three divergent sec- tions because the President could not, or would not, lead his party,” Mr. Shouse declared. . ON WAY TO CHURCH Factory Foreman Held by Connec- tieut Police Baid to Have Con- fessed Slaying. By the Assoclated Press. NEW BRITAIN, Conn,, February 24. —Mary Velicka, 19 years old, was shot to death here yesterday while on her way to church. She collapsed in the hallway of a tenement house while try- ing to escape from her assailant. Three bullets struck her. George F. Schmalz, 44, foreman at a factory where the girl had been em- ployed until recently, was arrested and was sald to have confessed the shooting. Police said he told them he shot the girl because she had refused to bring their friendship to an end. “She had been taunting me,” they quoted him as saying. EDUCATORS MEET. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J,, (#).—The convention of the Depart- ment of Superintendence of the Na- tional Education Association opened February 24 here today with Norman R. Crosier; _-rupennwmzm of schools of Dallas, ex., 3 Delegates from all over the country were in attendance. BUILDS STRENGTH TO FIGHT, city rising eAn interior view of the new Postal Telegraph office in the Washington Building at New York Avenue and 15th Street. Pleasant surroundings and every facility and convenience for writing telegrams. on the Potomac - PostaL TELEGRAPH brings a new. typ BATTERY of Typing Telegraph ma- chines—in Postal ‘Telegraph's new operating department . . . they receive messages automatically, cut delivery and sending time. Daily they flash the story of busy, progressive Washington to every part of the world (right), ANYONE who can operate a typewriter can send tele. grams with this Typing Telegraph. Over it, from your own office you can transmit messages all over the world via the Interna. tional System. 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