Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1930, Page 5

LIFE OF FARM WIFE | 15 DECLARED BEST Woman Honored by Federa- "' tion Paints Rosy Picture of Rural Home. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, December 9.— Mrs. Ells- worth Richardson of Albis, Iowa, first woman to receive the Distinguished Service Medal from the American Farm Bureau Federation, has no daughter, but if she had, she said today, she would ‘want her to be a-farmer's wife. Mrs. Richardson, .the mother of two sons, was one of three persons who to- day received the federation’s highest award for meritorious service to agri- culture. She was selected because of Ter efforts in organizing the farm wom- en of the country. “I can offer no better recipe for hi piness to the young women of America, she said, “than this: ‘Beccme a farmer’s bride.’ The rural home offers the great- est opportunity for happiness that can be &und, Surrounded by nature's beauty, the rural home and its family life afford to the wife and mother a Joy that nowhere else can be found.” The other medal recipients were Dud- ley Myers of Mendon, Ill, and Prof. T. L. Haecker of Lincoln, Nebr. Myers is credited as being largely re- sponsible for the development of the Adams County Live Stock Shipping As- sociation, the largest in Illinois, which has become the model for the national expansion of the co-operative market- ing of live stock. Prof. Haecker is known to farmers as “the father of the co-operative dairy system in Minnesota.” Smoking Law Proposed. Pifteen hundred farmers attending the convention last night were ponder- ing the most radical resolution ever to come before the organization. The pro- posal, in effect, asks the federation to urge legislation prohibiting smoking on any American farm. ‘When it was reported among the del- egates that a resolution had been sub- mitted asking the federaticn to recom- mend legislation prohibiting smok! on the farms, many delegates were inclined to treat the subject as a joke. . One of the delegates said the reso- lution had been introduced in secret committee session by & non-voting dele- gate from New Mexico, whose name was not disclosed, in behalf of a woman who i argued that: ¢ Arguments Advanced. Smok{ng was a menace to farm prop- ert. 2 Smoking always has been barred in dairies as nicotine taints milk. Smoking encouraged loafing on the part of farm labor and decreased effi- clency. Bn%kml by hoboes was a serious menace. Smoking set a bad example to 4-H Club members. Smoking by women in the convention ‘hotel was so common that zome of the convention visitors were shocked, mem- bers sai ‘The committee also heard argurents favoring reversal of the federation's licy against public ownership of fi\l&cle Shoals, and a stand favoring revision of the farm loan credit system. ‘The committee in addition listened to advocates of a federation stand against excessive farm taxes, and a licy favoring enactment of legisla: &’m to provide drought relief to the agricultural sections of the country. Boston Mayor Speaks. ‘The committee will present its recom- mendations at Wednesday's session. Its open session yesterday, followed upon addresses by Mayor James M. Curley of Boston, C. C. Teague of the Federal Farm Board, and President Sam ‘Thompson of the federation, advocatin further Government efforts in behalf of “There is a fleld for stabilization measures,” Teague declared, “but suc- cessful Government stabilization de- pends on the support farmers them- selves give the effort.” ugm{‘mg at an exhibition of antique tural implements last night, Dr. Arthur W. ‘Gllbefl. ll‘l.lnchuleul Com- issioner of Agriculture, expressed hoj that the East and West might mcple\ @ common program to safeguard their mutual welfare and end “the silly dilly- in Congress.” U. S. FINES BERT LYTELL LOS ANGELES, Calif,, December 9 ). —Bert, Lytell, screen actor, was fined $100 yesterday in Pederal Court for evading part of his 1925 income tax. United States attorneys recommended the small fine, saying Lytell already had paid $25,000 in tax penalties, J. Marjorie Berger, income tax coun- gelor, who prepared Lytell's return with those of other film people, is serving a three-year term in Pederal prison at Alderson, W. Va., for conviction of de- | frauding the Government. I g e CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Supper and bazaar, Sodality of St. James’ Catholic Clureh, Thirty-seventh street and Rhode Island avenue north- gast, Mount Rainier, Md, 4:30 to 9:30 pm. Meeting, Beta Hotel, 8 pm. Meeting, Alpha Chapter, Gamma Delta Sigma Borority, Hamiiton Hotel, pm. Gamma Phi, Hamilton Meeting. Vincent B. Costello Post, No. 15, Execuiive Commitiee, Cairo Hotel, p.m. Meeting, Sixteenth Street Heights Citizens’ Association, Northminster Chapel, Alaska avenue and Kalmia woad, 8 pm. Banquet, Canadian Club, Lee House, Fifteenth and L streets, this evening. Card party, Columbia Review, No. 3, W. B. A, 1750 Massachusetts avenue, €:30 pm. Meeting, American Institute of Elec- trial Engineers, Cosmos Club, 8 p.m. Card party, Waneta Council, No. 6, Pythian Temple, 1012 Ninth street, 8 pm. Meeting, Society for Philosophical Inquiry. New National Museum Build- ing, 4:45 pm. Meeting, Society of American Bac- seriologists, Washington Branch, Naval Medical School, Twenty-third and E streets, 8 pm. Card party, Victory Review, Women's Benefit Association, 24 Iowa Circle, 8:30 pm. FUTURE. Luncheon, Optimist Club, Hamilton [Hotel, tomorrow 12 m. Luncheon, Monarch Club, Hamilton l, tomorrow 12 m. Meeting, Mira McCoy Andrews Day Rx_r;:ry Hamilton Hotel, tomorrow Meeting, Catholic Conference on In- dustrial Problems, Hamilton Hotel, to- morTow 9 am. Luncheon, Probus Club, Ambassador Motel. tomorrow 12 m. Luneheon, Lions Club, Washington Bullding, tomorrow 12:30 p.m. Taking the leading roles, Miss Mary entire cast numbers 80. on the McKinley High School auditorium stage Thursday night in the George Washington Universitv annual musical comedy, “Good Gracious Godfrey.” The | THE EVENING § Whelchel and Henry Nestor will appear WATTS T0 ADDRESS INDUSTRIAL GROUP { Trade Journal Edifor to Show | | How Electrical Unit May Promote Prosperity. What the electrical industry can do, locally and nationally, to attack depres- | sion and build for future prosperity will | |be discussed by Frank Watts, trade | journal editor and | publisher, before representatives of the electrical in- | dustry of the Capi- tal at a meeting of | the Electric League lof Washington, Thursday night, in the auditorium’ of the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. Watts, who is editor and pub- lisher of the Elec- trical Dealer and | Electric Light and Power, has made a special study of conditions in the electrical industry, and will come prepared to cite local and national statistics bearing on the cur- rent situatign., Boost for Holiday Decorations. | The league also will hear reports from the Planning Committee, which was ap- pointed to outline proposed activities for 11931, and from the “Brighter Washing- ton Christmas Committee,” formed to | | work out plans for holiday decorative lighting. In advance of the report of the Christ- mas Committee it is known that ar- rangements have been made to award !a large siiver trophy cup to the com- munity having the most artistic display of outdoor Christmas lights, and an- | other cup to the business section pre- senting the most attractive outdoor dis- | play. | Board of Judges Named. | The board of judges will include Dr. George C. Havener, president of the | Federation _of Citizens' Assoclations; | Lloyd B. Wilson, president of Chesa- | peake & Potomac Telephone Co., and | Robert F. Beresford, architect. Communities which have already { made pans for outdoor lighting displays | during the Yule holidays include Wes- | {ley Heights, three times winner of the Electric League trophy; Columbia Heights, where the brilliant Santa ! Claus lane already is lighted; Georgia venue, Anacostia, Rockville and Wis-| consin avenue suburban districts. |DEATH WARNING ISSUED | AGAINST METHANOL USE Mr. Watts, , Alcohol, Says Cumming—Purple | Tinting Is Recommended. | By the Assoclated Press. | A warning against the use of meth- !anol for beverage purposes was isued | yesterday by Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cum- | ming of the Public Health Service. He described it as more “pois and more highly fatal than any natured alcohol,” and said the product, | used as an anti-freeze for automobiles, | should be tinted purple as a warning | against drinking it. “According to press accounts, such | Jolsoning has recently occurred in Pennsylvania,” he added. IOWA;I HAS TROUBLES Faces Manslaughter) Trial. Hanford, jr., wealthy Sioux City, Iowa, man, is having his day in court—in fact, in two different courts. In Omaha, Nebr. Hanford went on trial yesterday charged with man- slaughter in connection with the death last July of Fred Slayden, a hotel por- ter, was kujed in a scuffie at a downtown hotel, in which witnesses said Hanford participated. In Judge Daniel P. Trude's court, chlu,m Muriel Keane Hanford, actress and former wife of Robert Emmet Keane of suing Hanford for cruelty. In a set out he was never former vaude- inasmuch as the mar- days gecurred 10 her_ de- Ko T S stage fame, is divorce, rging bill risge cree More Fatal Than any Denatured ; | ( Horta (Fayal). Wife Asks Divorce Just as He CHICAGO, December 9 (#)—Arthur THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair tonight, not so cold; minimum temperature abcut ' 37 degrees; tomorrow fair, moderate west winds. | Maryland — Partly cloudy; slightly warmer in extreme west portion to- night; tomorrow fair, fresh to strong west winds. ! Virginia—Fair, not quite so cold to- night; tomorrow fair, with slowly rising temperature in extreme west portion; fresh west winds. ‘West Virginia—Partly cloudy tenight and tomorrow, slowly rising tempera- | ture. Record for Twenty-four Hours. ‘Thermometer—4 p.m., 41; 8 p.m., 39; 12 midnight, 39; 4 am, 39; 8 am, 35; noon, 44. 20.91 Barometer —4 am,, ; 8 pm., 29.94; 12 midnight, 29.92; 4 a.m., 29.87; 8 a.m,, 29.85; noon, 29.79. Highest temperature, 46, occurred at 1:30 p.m. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 7:40 a.m. today. I Temperature same date last year— Highest, 52; lowest, 30. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 5:04 a.m. and 4:56 p.m.; high tide, 10:27 am. and 10:49 pm. 35, occurred at Tomorrow—Low tide, 5:54 a.m. and 5 p.m.; high tide, 11:23 a.m. and 11:45 pm. > The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose 7:15 a.m.; sun 4:46 pm. | ‘Tomorrow—Sun rises 7:15 a.m.; sun sets 4:46 p.m. . Moon rises 8:36 p.m.; sets 10:53 a.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Condition of the Water. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers both | clear this morning. Weather in Varlous Cities. 'Temperature. SOUNH *quau asep Stations. Weather. - samoreg | Abllene, Albany Atlant; Atlantic _Cit Baltimore. 3irmingham .. 30,2 Bismarck. N. 'D. Boston., Mass.. Buffalo. N. 29.60 Charlecton, §.C. 30.14 Chicago, 1. 20.86 Gincinnatt, Ghio Cl Cloudy . Cloudy Clear Etcloudy _cloudy al Tex.. Ny, ain PBt.cloudy £ . 30. 30. Pt cloudy Cle Kront .- Huron, 8. Dak.. 30 Indianapolis.ind 30 Jacksonville.Fla. 30 Kansas City., M; Los Angeles. . 20 Touisville, Miamt, Orieans. Ld" 303 New York, N'Y.2008 46 3 1 Cklahoma’ City. @ Omaha. Nebr. Clear Philadelphin Pt.cloudy Pi Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear” | Cloudy Pt.cloudy nio. .. 30.32 San Diego, Caiif 2096 68 Cloudy Pt.cloudy . Pt.cloudy Stations. ondon, England Parls, Prance... Vi Austria. . Garman t. France. Stockholm, Sweden. Gibraltar. : Noon. Green! Azores (Current observations.) Permud [} L 80 Clear time, today.) 64' Part cloudy Hamilton Havana,_ Cuba Colon, Canal Zot MAN DROWNED AT WORK Three Escape as Seattle Bay Cais- son Overturns, SEATTLE, Wash., December 9 (#).— One man was drowned and three were ;"scutd here yeste:day when a caisson under which three of the men were working at a depth of 60 feet on the bottom of Elliott Bay overturned. The men were removing sand for concrete pillars for a new dock. Eddle Sproule lost his life when he attempted to escape by diving out under the bottom of the caisson. His two companions, Arthur Llewellyn and L. McLeod, scrambled up the sides to the top sheed of the rising water. Jack Haryey, lock tender on of the cals- son, clung to-it a8 it rescued. ing | o | CANADIAN WAR (and Accounts; James, North Carolina, TAR, WASHINGTON, DANVILLE IS QUIET AS MILLS REOPEN No Effort Made at Mass Pick- | eting Since Police Used | Tear Bombs on Crowd. Special Dispatch to The Star. | DANVILLE, Va, December 9— | Complete quietude reigned this morn- | ing when the Riverside and Dan River | mills reopened, there being no effort at mass picketing seen yesterday when | police dispersed crowds by the use of tear gas. four of the eight gates in the cit: opened for the admittance of workers, | and at Schoolfield military squads were on duty, but had nothing to do. | E Arrests in connection with alleged strike disorders had mounted to 58 in Danville and Schoolfield today. Ten men were arrested in connection with a felonious assault on C. W. McKellam, & non-union worker, while on his way to work yesterday. Schoolfield police | acted on information given them by the victim at Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Grace Burcher is also in ' the hospital suffering from contusions_ Col. H. L. Opie, in command of the troops at Schoolfield, who received a union delegation protesting against | alleged action of troops in dispersing crowd® on private property and escort- ing mill workers to the plants, promised an investigation. . GREEN HITS USE OF TROOPS, Head of Federation Says Need at Dan- ville Is Mg‘llwn Not Bullets. William Green, president of th} American Federation of Labor, said in & statement last night that the “crying need” at Danville, Va., where a textile | strike is in progress, not troops and | bullets but the exercise of reason, fair- | dealing and justice.” ; . Green criticised Gov. Pollard of Vir- ginia for sending troops to Danville, saying it was “without cause or justi- fication” and had caused “a disquieting effect and is an unwarranted burden upon the taxpayers of Virginia.” “A corporation,” Green said, “which will not mediate or arbitrate with its | employes is not entitled to the use of | troops for the purpose of terrorizing | honest efficient working people whose cigllun!hlp and standing are unassail- able. “Public opinion ought to assert itself when injustice is so manifest. Where | tyranny prevails the people should rise | up and denounce it. How the good people of Virginia can_tolerate such a situation as exists in Danville is diffi- cult to understand.” Green sald Pollard would have ren- dered a great service if he had advised | the corporation which he did not name, and its officers that instead of troops he would send mediators. 25 SPORTSMEN GATHER FOR REGULAR LUNCHEON Local Club Is Auxiliary Organiza- tion of Izaak Walton League. Motion Pictures Shown. Twenty-five representative business men gathered at the Raleigh Hotel yes- terday at noon for the second of the semi-monthly luncheons of the Sports- men’s Lunch Club, an auxiliary organi- zation of the Washington, D. C., Chap- { ter of the Izaak Walton League of | America. ‘These luncheons are chiefly of a social nature, but matters cf importance are | brought up and discussed informally. Dr. M. D’Arcy Magee, president of the local chapter, presided and outlined the | purposes and aims of the Walton | e. Following the luncheon moving pic- tures taken and presented by the United States Bureau of Fisheries were shown. These pictures depicted the work be- ing done by the bureau of trying to supply the demands of the ever-increas- number of anglers. The next meeting of the Luncheon Club will be held at the Raleigh on Monday, December 22. | VETERAN OFFERS SELF FOR SALE Painter, 44, Will “Do Anything Legitimate” to Earn Living for | ‘Wife and Children. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., December Out of work for the last three weeks, H. L. Griffis, Capadian war veteran, had recourse to & newspaper advertisement yesterday. It read: | “For sale—A human being to the highest bidder. Am a strong, physically fit man. I offer myself to doctors, hos- pitals, etc., as a living specimen upon which to experiment. I will also go any- where or do anything legitimate to earn a llvm’{’for my wife and children.” Griffis, 44 years old, he sald, is a painter, and his wife and two children have been here more than a year. He | said today he had never before been out of work. A native of this country, he | enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1915, | he said, saw service in France with the 1st Canadian Cavalry Brigade, and was discharged April 11, 1919, as & sergeant. e . DEMOCRATS ARE ASSIGNED By the Associated Press. Committee assignments of six new Democratic House members were made | yesterday on a motion of Democratic Leader Garner. ‘The assignments were: D.. 6, Police with riot guns patrolled the | [\ PRATT ANNOUNCES TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 19%0. IKELLOGE UNAFRAID . TITANIA, Four-year-old Chihuahua, weighing 20 ounces, one of the smallest dogs in the country, poses for its photograph in a lamp shade. Titania is owned by Miss Harriett De Witt of Washington. —Star Staft Photo. NAVAL AIR POLICY Disputed Question of Coast Defense Treated With Definiteness. Principles laid down by the Morrow Board, in its aircraft policy for national defense in 1925, were taken as the basis for the new naval air operating policy that the Navy will put into effect coincident with the changed operating plan of the fleet on April 1. This was announced yesterday by Admiral Wil- liam V. Pratt, chief of naval opera- tions, who said that while the Kellogg peace pact was borne in mind, “never- theless the fact remains that we may be drawn into war, and for this reason must be in a position to defend our rights.” Admiral Pratt said that mobility of the fleet is its best offensive power. ‘The problem of coast defense, long a controversal ground on which the Army and Navy has sought solution, was treated with definiteness. ‘The outline said naval air forces on land bases “are not intended for and will not be allowed to be diverted from their fleet objectives for any reasons of coast defense except the most ur- gent, when, upon request of the com- mandant, the forces therein may be permitted to co-operate with other military forces, acting under such rules of procedure as are laid down by the Jjoint board.” CLUBMAN TAKES LIFE NEW YORK, December 9 (#).—James Meckley Potts, 37, wealthy silk mer- chant and clubman, died in a hospital last night from a self-inflicted bullet wound in the head. 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About other subjects which reporters tried to introduce into the conversation, including prohibition, Mr. Kellogg was lmeoalnlmnluuve, but he opened up on “I don’t believe in any new European war,” he said. “There are many prol lems in Europe, many of which have already been solved and others of which will be solved.” ull-lexdfichned to tna‘ any ln'credllz for e Kellogg peace . say t was Foreign Minister Hrf:ncd of France who the original plan which re- sulted in the t. On the possibllity of revising the Ver- sailles treaty and modification of the prohibition law he was firmly silent. He told reporters he smoked, but did not drink, and gave them a recipe for keeping young—healthful living and sensible eating. He will receive the award Wednesday. peiat bt dh $100,000 for Jobless Relief. CHICAGO, December 0 (#).—Presi- dent Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University turned over a check for $100,000 to Gov. L. L. 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