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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-13
MOTHER Sic v
GIRL TO SAVE
HER, CLAIM
Mrs. Mary Keller BIanes
Home Life, and Says She
Wants to Die, Too

SANDUSKY, Ohio. Nov. 13.-Mrs.
Mary Keller. forty-seven. who told
authorities that she poisoned her
seven-year-o1d daughter and name
sake, then hid her body In the
Doggy wastes cf 'sBig Island" near
East sandusly, entered formal
plea Of guilty when arraigned zee
terday.
'ewhy did you DO it7' the court
asked.
VIIi tell you why" the woman
answered. cit was because Of Ed.
nv husband, Mary's father. he
never made q home for 10. i was
nothing but fight. fight al the
time.
4 made up my mind that my
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-13
MAYOR FIRES CHIEF IN
IRE OVER "HICK" RULES

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13.-
Mortified is not listed among the
largest cities of New Jersey, but
nobody is going to make q thick"
town out of it--not so long as
Mayor Swilkey has anything to say
about 1t. And he seems to have.
william Ritz, chief Of police In
the resort place three miles from
Pleasantville, was fired" by the
mayor, who said the chiefs traffic
regulations had made Mortified
the hick town Of the shore resorts. +"
Ritz has been q stormy petrol
since his appointment by the mayor
two years ago.
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child wasn't going to stand Il any
more, 90 I killed her, and want
to die. too"
Never Tor q moment did the
woman's calm break. A. calmly as
though discussing the Smerest neigh.
happening. she told the
story Of the crime. the unhappy
home life. and all else.
Mrs. keller was bound over with
out ban TO await the action Of the
Grand Jury. she was taken back To
JAN.
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in providing their wards with nee
essary supplies.
The investigators offered no REM
edy for conditions at the hospital,
other than suggesting that the
situation liz one which can be
remedied only by action on the part
OF Congress"
Records Of more than 1000 patti
ents were examined. and of these
956 are ex-service men entitled to
Veterans Bureau care.
The report stated that no evil
dence was found to substantiate
charges OF maltreatment Of patti
ents, inadequate food or improper
detention without diagnosis.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-13
Ulster win Fight For
Lands Coded to
Free State
~ international News Service

BELFAST, Nov. 13.-"1 pray
for peace, but we are ready to
fight in the open against our
enemies who would take our
loved soil from Ulster" declared
Premier Craig in q speech to
tOrangemer.
The premier was referring TO
the forthcoming boundary re-
port, which, it is stated, viii
cede to the Irish Free State 9
portion Of Ulster soil, but will
also give Ulster some OF the
territory now held by the Free
State.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-13
STOPPING GAS LEAK,
EMPLOYEES SAVE MAN

A call for the Washington Gas
Light Company's wagon to attend
to a leak at 205 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. northwest late last night saved
the life Of Stanley Leonette.
When the employees arrived they
found a gas stove turned on and
the room full of gas. In the room
they also found Leonette in bed I'M
conscious. He was rushed to Emer-
gency Hospital and treated by Doc
tor James r Preston
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-13
JAPANESE FREIGHTER
REPORTED IN DISTRESS

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. IA
wireless message which indicated
the Japanese freighter Ruywo Maru
is in distress midway between Hon
olulu and Japan was picked UP by
the Federal Telegraph Co. here
early today.
According to the Federal tele-
graph station, the ship Scottsburg
was in communication with the
Ruywo Marll.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-11-13
WOMEN TRADE FAT
FOR WRINKLES, CLAIM

BERLIN, Nov. 13.-Forced weight
reducing cures. to comply with the
demands of fashion, are making
women prematurely old. For every
pound OF tat that IL lost, O new
wrinkle appears in the face.
That ii the assertion Of Professor
Friedrich Gudzent, one OF the chief
surgeons at the Berlin Hospital.
and OF other medical authorities In
Germany
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"A license has been issued by the
clerk of the circuit court here for
the marriage OF Lewis s.. Waldron.
twenty-nine, OF IngIewood, N. j..
and Miss Henrietta Wilson, twenty
seven. Of Charlottesville. Va.
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Miss Elizabeth Hicks, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Hicks, 81 Rock
Vile, died suddenly at her home
yesterday morning, aged eighteen
years. She Ii survived by both
parents, q brother and three sisters.
The funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
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NJ ON I GOMERY
MAN DIES OF
HURTS
Parl<e Dubbs Fatally Injured
in Accident on Dairy
Farm

ROCKVILLE, Nd, Nov. H.
Rarlxe Dubbs, twenty-six, in charge
Of the dairy on the farm OF Mill
lard L. Rice, ST., near Jamestown,
this county, for the last year, died
In q Washington hospital Tuesday
night as "a result Of injuries re-
ceived on the Rice farm last Sum
day.
While q gasoline engine was in
operation In the dairy, the belt
came off. Mr.. Dobbins was at
tempting to get It in place by
using an iron pipe, when the pipe
caught In the spokes Of the re-
volving wheel and was wrested
from the young mans hands. It
hung In the wheel and was twice
crashed against Dubbs' head.
The young man was unmarried.
o'clock Saturday afternoon from
his home in Carlisle, Pa.
r. w. McGinniss, real estate
agent Of the vicinity OF Kensing-
ton, this county, was given judg.
nent for $93.82 by q jury In the
circuit court here yesterday after
noon In q suit against Michael
Whalen, a Gaithersburg district
farmer. McGinnis claimed $500
commission for the sale OF Whalen'e
farm 20 Henry b. Bohrer, OF this
county, but Whalen insisted that
McGinnis was not his agent and
refused payment.
Within the last few days the
Reverend b. w. John, pastor az
the Rockville Methodist Church.
has OBLIGATED at the marriage ct
his homo here Of the following
couples; Calvin William Gruber,
Of Garfield, Pa, and Miss Martha
Katherine Smith, Of Stafford Court
house, Va: Laur1ston v. Howell.
OF st. Petersburg, Fla, and Miss
Margaret s. McWhorter, of Fair
fax, Va; Garrison "A. Tice and
Miss Florence r. Edwards, both Of
washington, ana George W. Ed
wards, OF CoIesvflle, this county.
and Miss Nora l. Owens, Of Rector.
town. va
Miss Elizabeth Hicks, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Hicks, of Rock
vile, died suddenly at her home
yesterday morning, aged eighteen
years. She IL survived by both
parents, brother and three sisters.
The funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
A license has been issued by the
clerk Of the circuit court here for
the marriage OF Lewis s. Waldron.
twenty-nine, OF IngIewood, N. J..
and Miss Henrietta Wilson, twenty
seven. Of Charlottesville. Va.
Ralph II. DuvalI, Of Tenleytown.
p. G., employed as q conductor by
the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company for several years, was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff J. Stan
ley Gingell on q warrant charging
him with q serious offense against
Dorothy Sarrell. The offense was
committed, 50 the warrant states,
on November /, 1924, at which
time, the warrant further sets
forth, the gicl was under fourteen
years OF age. Duvall was core.
mitted to jail and his case win be
considered by the grand jury, now
In session here. He has retained
Attorney Samuel Beach, OF Washing
ton, to look after his interests.
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Dangerous CargOes.

THE wide variety OF merchandise
carried by the up-to-date ocean
going cargo liner is astonishing.
Cargo boats to today have holds that
remind one moro of small warehouses
than anything else.
There are, however, very few con-
signments that can be left to them
selves, for the trouble with nearly
every variety of cargo lies in the
danger it holds for ship and crew
unless it receives constant care and
attention throughout the passage,
and thus it comes about that the
shipping company's readiness to ac-
cept anything that will show a profit
faces the ships officer with some
difficult propositions in the handling
and nursing Of the cargoeS his ship
carries.
Even with coal-most common OF
all Observation-Disclosures is a consider
able element of danger if it is not
correctly ventilated. and many a fine
ship has been lost without trace
through spontaneous combustion in
her coal cargo! In fact, at one time
the disappearance of a score of ves-
sells on the coal run from Australia
to Valparaiso was attributed to this
cause Every one Of those ships
blew up and burned to the waters
edge-at least that is the supposition,
for not one of their crews returned.
Railway iron. loaded in thousands
of tons in New York for various
destinations in the Mediterranean,
forms a typical example. When this
is loaded grating fashion in a ships
hold, it requires the Iabors OF a. gang
of men working throughout to wedge
1t securely together. for a 20-foot
piece of railway iron is a dangerous
thing to have adrift in a. vessels
hold, and on more than one occasion
when this has happened a particu-
larly heavy roll has driven it endwise
through her shell plating.
Manganese, iron or copper ore
makes another dreaded cargo, for.
although only a little is carried in
each hold, it entirely lacks buoyancy,
and once the ship is holed she sinks
like a stone.
Cotton and hemp are dangerous
cargoes, too, for a spark from the
vessels funnel will set them blazing.
Rice from Rangoon has to be elab-
orately slowed. pierced by trunkways.
raised from the hold bottom on dun
mage wood, and, under all circum-
stances, kept watertight, even though
the ship is awash with heavy seas on
every deck. What is going to happen
to 5000 tons of rice in a close com
partment once it gets wet is fairly
obvious.
All kinds Of grain, especially wheat,
are subject to shifting. That is TO
say, a vessel will leave New York
full of bulk grain and then in g. heavy
sea- partition between compartments
will break and away goes an ava
lanche of grain with a rush all to
one side of the ship and so over she
goes on her side, a prey to every
sea that comes along. This has
happened in port on several occa.-
sions and men caught beneath tho
running grain have been dug out
hours later dead.
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which is that 1t will have no real air.
craft carriers of the type authorized
by the Washington naval treaty and
now actually in commission princi-
pally in the British navy. The Amer
lean fleet will be accompanied by one
extemporiZed carrier, the Langley,
with possibly other vessels simulat-
ing the functions of this important
type of craft. In addition, of course,
each battleship has facilities for a
limited number of planes which are
designed to take off, from turrets or
elsewhere, and to function primarily
as part of the ship to which they
are assigned.
Against Army aerial bombers op-
Grating from the shore the Navy ships
will rely for protection, in addition
to their air force, on improved anti
aircraft batteries, about which little
has been made public, but which have
the popular reputation of being
somewhat more proficient than those
of the Army, owing to the fact that
they are more modern, both as to
gun power and mechanism. AS de-
tails Of these experiments, opportu-
mites will be offered for testing the
latest developments in smoke screens,
gas barrages and similar devices.
The all-important function of UNI
piring these maneuvers will devolve
upon a picked corps Of high Army
and Navy officers, who will be d.
vided between the offensive and de-
fensive forces and will collaborate
in reaching a final decision. These
umpires include Admiral r. z.
CoontZ, commander in chief of the
United States combined feet, who is
a native of Missouri, and who has
had much service in the Pacific. He
was once Governor of the Island of
Guam, which he helped to capture.
There will also be Mai. Gen. John L.
Hines, chief of staff of the United
States Army. native of West vir-
ginia, and an officer characterized by
Secretary of War Weeks as one of
the most brilliant leaders of troops
the United States has ever produced.
and holder Of decorations both for
bravery and merit, won in the World
War. These two principal umpires
will have numerous assistants.
Preliminary operations leading up
to the great concentration in Ha-
waiian waters in April, May and
June began in a series of engage
ments" off Lower California late in
February, after which the two op-
posing fleets combined for the cruise
to Hawaii.
(Copyright, 1875, by Foreign Affairs News
4oeyiae1
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expeditionary force composed of ma
rineS.
These two problems led up to the
present huge series Of operations.
| which, like the preceding tests, will be
carried out by maximum naval forces,
including an expeditionary or landing
| force of marines. The present maneu-
| vers, known as Army and Navy joint
problem No. 8, are designed to simu-
late an attack by a large naval force
against the Hawaiian Islands, with the
intention of capturing Oahu and gain
ing control of the entire group. The
attacking force will comprise practi-
cally the entire United States fleet,
| consisting of IL battleships, light
| cruisers, Sc destroyers, 1 aircraft
| carrier, 2 aircraft tenders, submarines,
| mine-layers and the so-called train, or
supply vessels.
X * vE x
A GAINST this armada will be pitted
4 a defending force made UP of the
Army garrison in Oahu and the
14th Naval District forces. The motive
of the problem is, first, to test the de-
fenses of the Hawaiian Islands, and,
second, to develop efficiency in coop
Grafton between Army and Navy forces
defending Oahu, and to increase the
| efficiency of the fleet as whole.
| Capture" of the island. according
to the present theory, means that an
assumed enemy would have a base
from which to attack in any direction
! In the Pacific or against any weak
point of the coast of the United
| States. At the same time, possession
by a hostile force of Oahu would
! preclude successful operation of an
American naval force away from the
United States coast.
With the islands held by us, it
would mean that no hostile force
could advance safely past the area
controlled by an American fleet based
on Hawaii, while at the same time
this key point would facilitate the
operation of an American fleet in any
direction in the Pacific. For exam
pie, fleet steaming from the United
States to the Philippines would be
compelled to refuel at Hawaii, which
is directly on the line of advance and
2,100 miles nearer Manila than is San
Francisco. There is no secure harbor
| other than Honolulu and Pearl Har-
| Dor in that part of the world which
would be adequate to accommodate
any considerable part of the Ameri-
can fleet AS a naval base Pearl Har-
Dor is now in process of development,
but it is not known whether its pres-
lent projected facilities are sufficient
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the waters edge Many times the
dense vegetation obscured the light
of the sun, gigantic mahogany, cedar
wild fig, cottonwood and banyan
trees forming a natural and impene-
trable arch over the turbulent
streams.
To the explorers. these arches were
ever waiting death traps. Once caught
in such tunnel, they might all have
been drowned. and only the uncanny
instinct OF the guides in scenttng the
approaching rise of the river saved
the party from disaster many times.
For tho white men to attempt to
foretel one of these freshets was
fruitless, but never once did the ma
tives fail to get them to higher
ground before nightfall, where they
were comparatively safe from the
water.
NyENOMOUS snakes offered constant
menace to the travellers, but here.
too, the vigilance and knowledge OF
woodcraft of the native guides stood
the party in good stead. The natives
went ahead of the scientists, rre-
q0ently cutting their way through
almost impenetrable Jungle with
thick bladed machetes, often hating
the party while they dispatched a
serpent that hung waiting from the
branch Of a tree, resembling more a
harmless vine than a poisonous
reptile.
Alarm clocks In the Nicaraguan
wilds would have been just about as
useful as Srowshoes. Scarcely had
the first streaks Of dawn lighted the
tips of the trees when every bush and
every twtg seemed to become sud
denly alive. Monkeys by the thousands
chartered back and forth, parrots
screeched, and for half an hour the
jungle rang with incoherent bedlam.
Then 1t suddenly ceased. and almost
appalling silence reigned until sun
rise the next morning.
Finally, the little group returned to
civilization. Nine weeks were spent
on the trip. In that time the scien-
lists had gathered information of
striking Importance to the theory OF
evolution. Not only had they OBJ
tanned a fund of knowledge that
might be applied to the human side
of evolution. but they had traced the
entire life cycle of three species or
monkeys that inhabit the Nicara-
guam back country.
They had set out to determine, 1T
possible, whether individual differ-
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stance with diseases likely to end
their lives, nor did they appear to be
dying off as a species; but they were
almost 100 per cent parasitized."
"In practically every specimen" he
continued, I'VE found filariasis, a dis
ease produced by parasitic worms that
invade the abdominal cavity. These
parasites are much like those that
affiict human beings with elephan
tiasis, getting into the lymph glands
and causing various parts of the body
to swell to two or three times their
normal size. From this cause chronic
Inflammation results, and in some of
the animals we found that the para
sites had brought on condition quite
like pleurisy."
Both DR.. Schultz and DR.. wislocki
share the belief that if a group Of
human beings were turned loose in
the jungles, to live free in a state
OF nature, they would not lose any
of the ills so often attributed to civ
ilization and city life. AS a matter
Of fact, study of the native Indians
of Nicaragua disclosed that their
troubles in their primeval surround
ings transcend even those of the
monkeys.
When DR.. Schultz set out to take
measurements of all the pure blood
ed Indians he could find he was able
to round up only 40, so rapidly are
the tribes becoming extinct. DR..
Schultz does not attribute this to in
termarriage among the natives.
Spaniards and negroes. Pure blooded
Indians are still tc be found in iso-
lated districts, but they are dying off
rapidly from tuberculosis and tuber
cular pneumonia, he declared. Even
one of the native guides died of
pneumonia during the trip.
1t took the white men some time
to become accustomed to the fare,
of lizards and iguana, their native
guides devoured so eagerly. once
they had tasted the reptiles, however,
the scientists declared they found
them not at all unlike chicken, and
eventually they became quite fond Of
a pouched reptile which could have
traced its ancestry back to the age
of the dinosaur. The armadilIo dinner
was quite an accident-especially for
the armadillo.
The little fellow strolled leisurely
into camp one evening just before
the men began to retire. When the
hunters started for it, it made the
mistake of emulating an ostrich, by
burrowing its head in the ground, in
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for a large feet, and it is already
known that if any emergency arose
the facilities would have to be en-
1arged materially. These questions,
1T is hoped, will be answered, at least
in part, in the course of the maneu-
vers, when a considerable naval force
will be based on both harbors for
about two months.
Another important result expected
from the Pacific maneuverS is the
actual demonstration of the worth
of naval aircraft and the value of
land aircraft as defense against this
form Of attack from the sea- Thus,
these tests are expected to contribute
some tangible conclusions in the ever
growing discussion, both public and
in the military services, of the rela-
tive value of aircraft and dread
naughts in national defense. AS a
matter of fact, officials point out, the
Pacific manuevers will furnish the
first practical test on a large scale
of the soundness of the contentious
now being advanced by ex-Brig. Gen.
William Mitchell of the Army Air
Service.
In furtherance of this phase of the
maneuvers, the Navy has brought to-
gether the largest modern naval air
force of its history, to be utilized in
every conceivable way In carrying
out the various missions of the mill
tary and naval forces involved. For
example, there are the familiar types
of spotting and observation planes,
the long distance scouting craft, car
rying large crews; the fast naval
fighting planes, which will be used to
drive off defending air forces, to
make way at sea for the sweeping at
tack of the newly developed torpedo
plane, and many types of the much
heralded aerial bombers.
X X X
COLLABORATING in these expert
~ ments and developments of the
use of air power will be the picked
squadrons of the Army air force sta
toned in the Hawaiian Islands, aided
by anti-aircraft batteries on the
ground, which have the reputation of
being the most expert of this branch
of the service in the American Army.
The Navy air forces will be COM
posed almost exclusively of types and
craft developed in the last two years,
but for various reasons will not be
accompanied by the most spectacular
craft of any air force, the Shenan-
doah and the Los Angeles, largest
dirigible airships in the world.
The Navy's air force will be ha.ndi-
ca1ped in only one A-<espects
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. ROM the day the United States
acquired the Hawaiian Is
lands the ever-increasing i'm
L portance of that group as the
kew of the defensive system
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son who has lost all of the teeth
and you will find that the chin pro-
trudeS even more markedly.
The human ear, too, is growing
smaller. In the embryo the ear first
appears as gill clefts, an indication
of the common origin far back OF
men and fishes. The appendix as an
organ has become only rudimentary.
Many surgeons will tell you IL is
useless, and certainly thousands Of
persons are doing quite well enough
without one. 1t is believed that. in
the course of time, human beings will
be born altogether without that
organ, because it probably has out
lived its usefulness.
At birth the distinction between the
length OF the legs Of an orang-utan,
a macaque monkey and a human is
not visible. The human legs develop
more later because of mans erect
posture. Just as in all monkeys,
the middle toe is the Ion ngest, so in
the human fetus the middle toe is
occasionally still the longest.
All of these are called definite
signpQsts on the road OF evolution,
showing that human life is not retro
crossing or even standing still. but
that it is still progressing, journey
ing on to something yet bigger and
better than living generations now
know.
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Jungle Facts Found by d. c. Scientists Applied Evouto

Visitors From United States Assisted by
Group of Native Indians In Their Investiga-
tions-Depart From Central American Town
Whose Sidewalks Are Built of Mahog-
any Lively Experience With the "Howler
Monkey -Simians Found to Be Subject to
Various Forms of Disease Notwithstanding
Their Life In the Open-Science Believed to
Have Obtained Benefits as Result of the Inter-
esting Experiments.
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Party Lives Under Primitive Conditions in
Nicaragua While Members Study Monkeys In
Search of New Light on Question of Environ
ment as Affecting Individual characteristics
Two Months Spent in Crude Huts, While Men
Live on Such Jungle Fare as Fried Lizard,
Venomous-Looking Iguana. Roast Monkey
Meat and Arm adillo-Reach Unanimous Yer
dict as to Conclusions From Their Research.