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Evening star., 1925-06-21
Economic.

The District OF columbia led the
nation in the percentage of popula.-
ton filing returns on incomes for the
wear, the Bureau of Internal Revenue
announced last week. This was due,
il was explained. to the large proper
ton of unmarried salaried employees
here The average net income re
ported for the District was $3.50.
President Coolidge last week re-
fused to accept d recommendation OF
the Tariff Commission, which has
been in his hands for more than 10
months, that sugar tariffs be reduced,
and by his action the question has
arisen of whether the Tariff Commits
sion;s existence will be long continued.
Created as a non-political body which
would recommend changes in the
tariffs purely on the basis OF cost OF
production, the commission has found
itself split on many questions which
came before it. The sugar tariff
possibly the largest issue which CON
fronted it. divided further the mem
bers of the commission and brought
OUT the point that it comes very
nearly being a bipartisan party whose
difficulties must be eventually decided
by the President.
Five nations last week met their
regular payments on their debts to
the United States-Great Britain. Fin
land, Hungary, Lithuania and 20
land.
The United States is shifting from
agricultural development to CONNER
ciai growth and closely populated
cities, and needs to include IN its popu
lation immigrants who would be at
tracted to the hard tasks of factories.
fessor emeritus of anthropology of the
University of Chicago, who addressed
the national conference Of social work
in Denver last week. He deplored the
immigration restrictive clauses apply
ing TO the Japanese as being founded
on race prejudice.
The brotherhoodS of railway train
men and conductors will hold diVi-
sional meetings in November to con-
slider the proposition of seeking a
wage increase from about 200 rail-
roads in the United States, according
to an announcement last week from
W. G. Lee. president of the trainmen.
He declined to name the exact amount
of increase to be asked, but It was
understood it would approximate Ga
cents a day, which, together with the
per cent increase allowed the men
last year, would DT1nR pay up 10 What
it was before the reduction in 1921.
Italy, one of the nations owing a
large debt to the United States. and
which has made no moves toward
funding it, will open negotiations to
that end the latter part of this month,
and formal arrangements were made
for that purpose last week by Am
bassador de Martino. There is little
known here of the terms which Italy
will seek.
Democratic and Republican Con
gressmen have been striving during
the past week to see who could under
bid the other on possible tax reduc-
tions to be effected by the next Con
gress. Despite the fact that Con
gress does not meet until December,
tax reduction is all the talk, and in
the view of experts Congress will
probably do something about it. In
the Fall. Chairman Green of the
House Ways and Means Committee,
will assemble his committee and be-
gin work on a new revenue bill, and
last week he expressed himself as
being of the belief that a liberal re
duction will be effected
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Sweden Studies U. s. Roads,

American experience, technique and
machinery will be used in rebuilding
and perfecting Sweden's national high.
ways. The rebuilding is necessary.
owing to the increasing auto traffic.
Sweden spends 72 per cent of the in
come from automobile taxes for road
repairs, 10 per cent for machinery and
allots a certain portion also for pave
ment research. drainage systems and
bridges.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Britons Growing Shorter.

Sir Arthur Keith, conservator Of
the Royal College of Surgeons Mu-
seums and England's best known
anthropologist, says the average
height of the modern Englishman is
S feet 6 inches. 1t was previously
supposed for many years that the
average was 5 feet inches. Sir Ar
thur said also in a recent lecture that
the brain of modern Europeans is
smaller today than formerly
Evening star., 1925-06-21
STROKE KILLS MERCHANT
M. Sanford Chancellor of Freder-
icksburg Dies at 65,

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, June 20.
M. Sanford Chancellor. aged 65,
prominent merchant and leading
citizen, died suddenly at his home
here today from a stroke Of apopleXy.
He was a native of Spotsylvania
County, but had been in business here
40 years. The funeral will be Sunday
afternoon, with burial at the home
place in Spotsylvania County.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Science.

An echo of the Tennessee evolution
case Is heard in Omaha, Nebr., where
Rev. c. p. Hojbierg, for six years
head of the Danish Lutheran Church's
seminary. has been ousted from his
position because he believed and per
sisted in teaching the theories or
evolution. 1t was also stated that the
president refused to take literally the
Bible stories of Jonah and the whale
and many others. The ousted pro-
fessor declared he would continue to
teach elsewhere his beliefs in evolu-
ton, as he believes a man can recon
cile his religion and his evolution.
In a statement last week from New
York the American Society for the
Control of Cancer declared that
thousands of lives which are need
lessIy sacrificed to the disease" would
be saved If the people would learn
the essential facts and cooperate In
telligently with the medical profes-
sion" The number of persons cured
of the disease by the use of surgery.
the Xray and radium is constantly
increasing. said the statement.
Measurements of the atmosphere of
the planet Mars, obtained at the
Mount Wilson California; observatory
of the Carnegie Institution or Wash
ington, indicate desert conditions over
most of the planets surface and re.
duce considerably the much-debated
possibility that life may exist on Mars,
II was announced last week by the
institution Previous researches by
scientists, which revealed marked
difference in temperature between the
Marian noon and midnight. indicate
that the only life possible on the
planet would be such as the earth S
lower forms, such as moss and
lichenS
Evening star., 1925-06-21
POWELL STUDENTS
PUT ON HONOR ROLL
Junior High Lists 81 Who
ExceIIed in Scholarship
and Athletics.

Students of the Powell Junior iigu
School, who eNcelled in schoIar.hI.
and athletics during the scmes,or
which closed Wednesday. were homo
ed at SpeC!a! assembly TueSGa
Thirty-One who held high Scholastr
ratings We're called to The platfoII D.
and introduced 10 the audience Of pa
ents. students and children. The.
names will be inscribed on the school
first honor roll
Certificates ana pins for successfu
achievement in physical tests wer~
awarded by Miss Hcider, instructor 81
physical training. CongratulatOr
speeches We're made by Miss Clara g..
BreWer. administrative principal OF thu
johnson Bancroft School, and DR. f.
q. kimball. supervising principal uf
the third division. Miss Bertie Backu-.
principal Of the school. presided.
Initial Honor Roll
Those who compose the initial horu-
roll follow: Stanley Harris William
Williams, Nadini Steaey. kathariu,-
Jose, Valerie Chitty, Mildred sullivan
Helen Jones, Nancy Booth, BerniCe
Stafford, Burley Martin. Jane Harvel-
cutter, Richard Herman. Louise Cros
by, Margaret BuynitZky, Betty Sar-
geant, Helen Mansfield, Olive Ruth
halfway, Lois Spencer. Lillian Man
Haskell MilstOne, Henry Backens oss.
Esther stein, John Huebsch, Anne
Machen, Irene Larasch. Scott Lyor..
Marian Charles, Phyllis LoyeyeEI
Norman Pressler, Virginia Rand ana
William Wolfrey-
Awards in Athletics.
Athletic awards were presented ia
the girls by Mrs. Joseph Sanders.
/ president of the Johnson-Powetl Moth
ers Club, while Maj a. NJ Holconlbe
OF the Mount Pleasant Citizens As
Soclaton made the awards 10 the bows.
rms were given TO the following for
/ thelr athletic endeavors Ardella
Smallwood, Helene LHommedieu.
+ katharine Jose. Marion Mansfield.
Marion Hart. Nancy Booth. Vireiri.,
Jordan. katharine Richards. Nargarer
Hale. Ellen Barron, Margaret Gum.
| Evelyn Glasser, Julia Ehitson. Downv
race, Horace Custis, Henry Beal. vii
nam Joiner, John Laskey. William
douglas, Charles Murray. John OIIan-
| Ion, Charles Casa Ssa, Robert Bourdinc.
! Jack Walters. James Franklin. Georre
! Keen, Dalton Hall. Richard Yate-,
AXE Iotten, Seymour Mintz and Ie,-
| bert Buckland
( Winners of Certificates.
! Certificates We're given TO Eliza =
/ Deth RaEan. Diana ChirieIeisou.
Edith Richmond, Emily Barron. Nir-
! slnla Hutson, Helen Farhood. N-ir-
glnia Rand, Dorothy NarineIIt, Janet
| Baker, Kitty Shannon. Eleanor Sim
! mons, Margaret Garrison. Lucille
Roberts, Grace Dis, Nadine SteacZ-.
Anna TauXman, Gladys Seeger. Rose,
fishbeln, Eleanor Norwood, Valerie
( entity, Lois Davis, Bernice Stafford
! Shirley Garrison. Eleanor Gary FIiz.
abeth Sherier. Margaret Buvnitzk1-.
OllEe Ruth Hathaway, Lillian Nav,
Lois Spencer, Emily Nickles, Eliza
! beth Wallace, Jane Parker, EVELYN
Brooks. Katharine Spring, Theresa
Turner, Rhoda Friedman, Mar
guerlte Anderson, Eloise Smith, Jane
carver, Virginia Bennett, Josephine
Peters and Ethel Ferguson.
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Current News Events
Summary of Important National, Foreign and
Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the
Convenience of Students

many troubles reached Toxic, where
he postponed taking off for the cross
Pacific flight until May In taking
off he fell, damaging his plane beyond
repair.
Warren S. Stone, who, as head OF
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engf-
neers, played a prominent part in the
relations between employees and en-
ployers on the railroads for many
years, died Friday before last in
Cleveland. Before the funeral the
body lay in state in the Brotherhood
of Engineers Building in Cleveland,
where thousands passed the bier in
tribute
Evening star., 1925-06-21
Jofre Has Chill.

PARIS, June 20 N.-Marshal
Joffre has caught chill, and will be
unable to attend a military ceremony
at Lille tomorrow, as he had planned
Evening star., 1925-06-21
DUNBAR FACULTY
HONORSD DR.. COOPER
Presents Gift in Recognition
of Winning of Phi. D.
From Sorbonne.

The closing days at Dunbar High
School were unusually active, with
classes held until the last day. Tari-
Gus organizations held final programs,
amonog them being the programs of
Section E-6, Miss II. E. Queen in
structor, and the Short Story Club,
Miss NJ. p. Adams sponsor.
The faculty presented to DR.. Anna
j. Cooper Tuesday morning a gift in
recognition of her achievement in win
ming the degree of doctor of philoSo-
ply from the Sorbonne.
The innovation of holding the COM
mencement exercises on the Howard
University campus proved a most
agreeable one, the scene being espe-
cially beautiful. and the large number
of parents and friends being easily
accommodated, a condition impossible
in the school auditorium. The com
mittee in charge of the arrangements
consisted of G.. David Houston, chair
man; Mrs. T. l.. Connolly, Mrs. Hurst,
Mrs. Brewer, Mr.. Cowan, Mr.. Parker
and Mr.. Saunders.
Vocational School to Open.
The Dunbar Vocation School, which
will extend from July l to August =,
uiAdtA NlIO Ia VI JdHlcS =.
Cowan, is expecting an unusually
large enrolment. The presence Of
the ga and 9-B classes from the
junior high schools will add materially
TO the members. A new feature Of
the school will be special six-week
music courses in piano, musical analy-
sis, harmony and musical apprecia-
ton. given under direction OF H l.
Grant. These courses are made posi-
BILE by the community center depart
ment of the public schools, Divisions
1913.
Dunbar students held a golf tSurna-
ment on the Lincoln Memorial links
June 70, 13 and IA. The winners We're
Franz Welch and Reginald Martin,
who won over Mayo and G. Williams,
4 UP and to play.
French Entertainment.
The following program was pre-
sented recently by members of the
Franch S class, assisted by Louieco
Lewis: Remarks by Elinor Robinson,
presiding: monologue, Dix Mile
Francs de Dot" Eulalia Luckett:
piano solo, lie Baiser," Clara Gam
brell: poem, La Tombe Dit, a la
Rose" Rosa Yancey: poem. LIE Mon
tagnard Exile" Louieco Lewis, and q
play. IL Homme Qui Epousa Tine
Femme Muette," Anatole France. The
cast was composed of Carroll Miller.
Ardell Jones, Louieco Lewis, Theresa
Wood and Margaret Jones. The final
feature included songs by the French
s class.
Evening star., 1925-06-21

Prosperity of workers in Italy has
increased the country's postal savings.
Evening star., 1925-06-21

Troops >40 and AZ, Mrs. Conrad H.
Young, captain. Ruth Schreiber and
Dorothy Lundell, scribes, closed their
season with an evening supper in
Evening star., 1925-06-21

Geneva the American delegates TO the
international conference fer the con-
troll of traffic in arms and munitions
signed the protocol outlawing poison
gas and meteorological warfare.
Eighteen nations signed the conven-
ton limiting traffic in arms previously
agreed to and 81 nations signed the
gas protocol. The arms convention
requires export licenses or publicity
for all shipments of arms which could
be used for warfare.
A movement to convert the birth.
place of Woodrow Wilson, in Saunton,
Va, into a national shrine, will be
headed by Edward w. Box, Charles
Evans Hughes, Owen D. Young,
Josephus Daniels and James w.
Girard. The fund to be raised will
amount to S500,000, and will be used
to transform the manse property
where Mr.. Wilson was born to a
memorial: to restore to it's original
form the chapel at Mary Baldwin
College, where he was baptized, and
to erect a memorial building on the
college campus.
France and Spain have started a
cooperative movement against the
Aiff1ans in Morocco, dispatches an
nounced last week, and at the same
time the PainleVe government in
France received vote of confidence
from the Chamber of Deputies, 436
to "a.
An attempt by Maj. Jedro Zanni
Argentine aviator, to fly around the
world, ended in failure last week,
| when his government ordered him to
return home from Japan. He left
] Amsterdam last September. and after
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Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-05
! Science Comes
To Support
OF Pie Eaters
BY United Press Leased Wire

by United Press Leased Wire
LOS ANGELES, Aug. s.
Science upset the preachments of
physicians today by recommend
ing three pieces Of pie as part of
the daily food ration of every
one.
''Pies are not indigestable as
claimed, but help form balanc-
ed Diet DR.. H. E. Barnard, of
the American Institute Of Bak-
ing, told the American Chemical
society meeting here.
''I have made laboratory tests
during the past year, and have
concluded that we ought to re-
turn to the old-fashioned menus
Of our mothers and eat a piece
Of pie at the end of every
meal
DIR. Barnard said custard pies
were the most nutritious. Fruit
pies were also recommended as
an aid to health, with mince-
meat and pumpkin next on the
list.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-05
LARGE AREAS BURN
AS FOREST FIRES
SWEEP NORTHWEST
by United Press Leased Wire

MISSOULA, Mont, Aug. 5. -
Scores of forest fires We're raging
cue of control today in the forest
reserve district comprising western
Montana, northern Idaho and east
ern Washington.
A check by foresters showed that
AS fires were burning in this area
and it was estimated that 1880
acres have already been burntil
over in the district.
Heavy winds yesterday scattered
fires beyond control in the kaniksu,
Clearwater, st. Joe and Occur
D'Alene forests in Idaho and Mon
tana.
The Bernard Creek fire in the
Clearwater district has spread over
an area of $500 acres on Scurvy
mountain, southwest of Wallace,
Idaho, two fires are burning ON
more than mile front.
All available mon have been sent
to fight the flames.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-05
2 Brawley Men
Are Charged As
Law ViOlatOrs

Two others indicted by the grand
lurv for violation of the alien land
law. were taken into custody yester-
dav afternoon. j. w. Ashurst, we'll
known Brawley rancher and his son
Iouis Ashurst, We're brought to the
county Jail.
Following the instructions issued
by Judge Conkling at the time the
indictments were brought in by the
grand jury, the Ashursts were re-
leased from custody when they de-
posted bail in the amount of $1,000.
Thus far total of 10 persons
have been brought in under the in
d;ctments and according to report
made at the. sheriff's office, there
arc still few more to be rounded
up. their names being withheld until
they arc in custody or released ON
bail,
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-05
LETTER SHEDS
NO NEW LIGHT
ON DUEL DEATH

Nothing new regarding the KIRK
Trrden tragedy was developed by
the letter addressed TO Trudcn s
parents in Jugo,Slavia, which was
Intercepted at New York for Sheriff
Gillctt and returned to him yester
day afternoon.
The letter was mailed from Impe-
rial two days after Truden had com
mitted suicide at Jacumba, follow
ing his fatal duel with Kirk at I'm
perial.
According to Sheriff Gillett, the
letter was written by Mrs. o. G..
Weaver, whose husband is proprie-
ter of the Imperial hotel where
Kirk and Truden lived. 1t merely
informed Truden s parents of his
death and expressed the customary
sympathy it such circumstances, as
we'll as advising the parents that
there was no known reason for the
action of their son.
Sheriff Gillett turned the letter
over to Mrs. Weaver after satisfy
ing himself that there was nothing
in it to help solve the tragedy.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-05
LOCAL BUILDING
PERMITS TOTAL
NEARLY $4,000
Construction Brisk Dur
ing July; Many Com
mence Operations J

Building permits during Yuly
amounted to $66,965, this being vie
of the highest totals in many
months. Although summer is not
considered to be Il particularly brisk
time in the building trades, local
contractors are all busy and report
one of the most active summers III
the history of the city.
The largest permit issued during
the month was for $4,000 covering
the new hotel being erected ON
Broadway by T. C. Jones. This ho-
tel, which will be of the commercial
type, is well along toward compile
ton, and will be opened about Sep
tember -.
Other large permits We're $4,000
for the new Buddhist church on
Commercial street: the new apart
ment house being built by Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Embury ON State street, which
will cost $1,000, and Professor Ell
mer Todd's new studio on Olive
street, which will cost $4,000.
Single dwelling houses are also
going up in various parts of the
city, including $500 house on
Fifth street, being built for Percie
Thacker; $250O residence on Len
Rey for Ernest Sanders and several
more smaller houses.
A permit was also issued for al
terations TO the Western Union
office, amounting to $l40O and for
the building ON West Main street
being built for the Shepherd Crook
company.
The activity in the building line
indicates the prosperity of the city,
a prominent builder said this morn
ing. There is no boom, the home
and commercial building being on
a substantial basis, showing that the
ciyt is growing slowly but steadily.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-05
BY SIDNEY WILLIAMS
United Press Staff ont

DOVER. Aug. 5.-Beaten by the
tides and icy waters of the English
channel, Lieutenant Colonel Ber-
Lard Cyril Freyberg. V. c.. was
forced to abandon an attempt to
swim from France to England to-
day within mile and half Of his
goal,
At one time, Colonel Frcyberg, a
world war hero who was nine times
wounded and won many decorations
at Gallipoli, was within mile of the
cliffs east of Dover.
Shortly after tho British officer
began his attempt, Mime. Jane Sion
French Woman, who started to swim
from Girls Nez Tuesday morning,
was forced to give up, only three
kilometers from Dover, overcome
with cold,
She had succeeded in establishing
y record for women attempting the
chagfei swiM.
Mss Gertrude Ederlc, American
champion, now is expected to start
CONTINUED on page b
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-05

BY United Press Leased Wire
WASHINGTON, Lug. g.
Qualifications were Exchanged
today at the s-,.e department
governments partic Up G d:
resentatives Of eigls powers of
Washington Arms Conference
treaties relating to the "open
door, and customs tariff in
China. Besides the United
States and China, the following
by Secretary Kellog and rep
Great Britain, Japan, France,
italy, Belgium, The Netherlands
and Portugal.
Secretary Kellogg will immediate
II notify the Pekin government o
this exchange and under terms of tn
tariff treaty China will call spe
cial customs conference of the pow
ers to meet III China within tire
months. The meeting is expecte'
to convene in Pekin in October,
is understood.
U. S. Delegates Named
John Van A. Nc Murray, America
ambassador in Pekin and Si!as
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-05
Scientists Scott at Gas Famine Menace
NeW' Motor Fuels
VIII Meet Demand.
Chemists Declare.

of wood waste as source of methyl
alcohol for automobile fuel. j. =.
Foster told of his experiments in the
Philippines in distilling industrial
alcohol from the juice of the Napa
palm.
Charles A. Newhall, industrial
chemist of Seattle, and chairman of
the symposium, elaborated on Fost-
er's treatise. The Napa palm, he
explained, grows in great profusion
in the tropics, and is one of the
most efficient plants in transform
ing sunlight and air into sugar
which is taken in its raw state and
fermented into alcohol.
Other chemists declared there were
vast possibilities for development
of the untouched oil shale deposits
III Utah and Colorado. not used now
because petroleum drilling is cheap
er than shale mining.
The petroleum industry can sur
vive and extend its operations only
by better manufacturing methods,
the scientists concluded.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-08-05
POWERS PREPARE FOR PARLEY ON CHINA
Special Customs
Conference Will
Be Held In Fall

Stfawn of Chicago, have been named
by President Coolidge as American
delegates.
The conference, under the treaty
provisions, sis for revision of
Chinese customs duties for the pur-
pose of making such duties eGuiva-
Lent to an effective five percentunt
ad valorem.
"The surtax shall be at uniform
rate of two and half percentum ad
vaiorem. provided that in case of
certain articles of luxury which can
bear n great increase without un-
duly impeding trade, the total sur
tax may be increased but may not
exceed five percentum adyalorem.
Periodical revisions of customs
schedules every seven years and
larger increase in duties after aboli-
ton by China of the Likin or Pro-
vincial tax are also provided by the
treaty
In the other treaty. on which
ratifieations were exchanged today,
the contracting parties agreed in
part:
To Respect Sovereignty
10 respect the sovereignty, the
Independence and the territorial and
administrative integrity of China.
ITO use their influence for the
purpose of effectually establishing
and maintaining the principle of
equal opportunity for the conference
and industry of all nations through.
ont the territory of China
TO refrain from taking advan.
tage of conditions in China in order
to seek special rights or privileges ,
which abrfdge the rights of others OF
create spheres of influence.