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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-02

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-10-02

Coal mine accidents in the United
States during tho first half OF 1926
resulted in tho loss % 1859 lives.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
PRESIDENT ADVISES
HEALTH SAFEGUARDS
Recommends to Congress Supple
ment D. C. Estimate of $4,000
to Meet Contagious.

A supplemental estimate of $1,000
for the District Health Department
for the prevention of contagious dis
eases is asked by President Coolidge
today In a letter to Congress.
Director Lord of the Budget Bureau
explains that the appropriation for
this purpose for the current year is
$4,000. Recently a number of cases
of smallpox of malignant type have
developed in the city of Washington,
making an unusual demand upon the
available funds. If the expenses of
the Health Department in prevention
of contagious diseases should con-
tinue at the present rate, the current
appropriation would be inadequate to
meet the demands made upon it.
Twenty-Five cases of maligant small
poX have been isolated and $50
people, who have been exposed, have
been placed under surveillance.
The question as to whether funds
In addition to those now available ac-
tually will be required depends upon
the development of the present situa-
tion, Gen. Lord says. Unless it ma
terially abates, additional funds will
be required. The purpose of the esti
mate submitted today is to enable the
Health Department to be in a. position
to meet any demands which may be
made upon it in connection with the
smallpox situation. The estimate is,
therefore, to cover a contingency
which could not have been foreseen at
the time of the submission of the
budget for the fiscal year of 1925.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
HONDURAS WILL GET
MUNITIONS FROM U. S.
Hughes Approves Formal Request
to Buy Rifles, Machine Guns
and Ammunition.

Formal request of the new Hondu-
ran government for the purchase Of
5000 American military rifles, 2,000,-
and 20 machine guns has been ap-
proved by the State Department and
now is before Secretary Weeks, who
will work out the terms OF the sale.
The negotiations are being con-
Quoted by Minister-desigrate Bogran
in behalf of the Honduran govern
ment. AS in the negotiations with
Mexican and Cuban authorities at
the time they purchased arms and
munitions from the United States
Army, Secretary Weeks will arrange
cash payment plan before delivery
is authorized.
Honduras wants the equipment for
its troops, and, under assurances
given the Washington authorities, it
will be employed not only in the sup
port of regular constitutional gov
ernment, but to aid in the protection
of foreign lives and property.
Need for the arms was held to be
acute
The rifles are expected to be of the
Enfield type, manufactured during
the war. and now held in reserve, and
differ from the approved Springfield
rife with which the Regular Army
and National Guard units are equip
ned. The machine guns probably VIII
he of the Lewis type and the ammu-
nition will be the same as that used
by the American military forces
Evening star., 1925-02-25
FUNERAL OF DR.. BARRETT
WILL BE HELD FRIDAY
Services for Noted Woman Leader
to Be Conducted at st. PauFs,
Alexandria.

Funeral services for DR. Kate Waller
Barrett. national president of the Flor
ence Crittenton Mission, Virginia state
regent of the Daughters of the American
Revolution and nationally known philan-
thropist and sociologist, who died at her
home in Alexandria Monday, will be con-
Quoted at St Paurs Episcopal Church,
Alexandria, Friday afternoon at 80
o'clock. Rev. DR.. Percy Foster Hall,
rector OF st. PauFs, will officiate, as
sisted by Rev. DR.. Samuel, A. Wallis,
nrofessor emeritus of the Episcopal
Theological Seminary, Alexandria In
terrnent will be in the historic Aqua
Church Cemetery, at Whitewater, Stat
ford County, Va, Saturday morning at
IL o'clock.
Funeral services were postponed from
Thursday morning to Friday afternoon
to enable a daughter, Mrs. Rathbone
Smith, of Canada, to attend.
Honorary pallbearers will include DR..
Hugh Mcclure, Gardner l. Boothe,
Harry Beverly, c. s. Taylor Burke, Ar
thur Herbert. S. T. Petty, A +. Hum
phries, Edgar Warfield, jr., and Chester
A. Snow.
Active pallbears will be chosen from
members of the District Department.
American Legion, and members of the
Service Club.
Many representatives from the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution and the
American Legion will attend the serv-
ices.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
TICKETS FOR DINNER
OF AID CLUB GO FAST
100 Sold Already for Event on
April 14-Space to Permit
400 Attendance.

More than 100 tickets have been
sold thus far for the annual dinner
OF the Washington Ad Club, which is
to be held at the Maynower Hotel
April II, it was announced by Sidney
Selinger yesterday. Mr.. Selinger was
recently appointed chairman OF the
dinner committee by Morris Kafka
president of the club.
Because of the many decorations
and features planned only 400 per-
sons will be able to attend the affair
this year. Elaborate souvenirs and
prizes are to be awarded Among the
entertainment features will be a style
show.
In talk on advertising at the
weekly luncheon at the City Club
yesterday G. l. Snowden, publicity
that the publications in the District
lead all others in point of value"
He stressed the need of better copy
and the need for getting advertising
"layouts" into the Offices of the pub
locations from two to four days ahead
of time.
He said that 1t would be better in
the long run for newspapers to in
crease their rates and decrease the
amount of space they allow for ad-
vertising.
Mr. Snowden urged originality in
the preparation of copy. The club
will not hold another meeting until
May 10.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
LUMP SUM FOR D. c.
STILL IN DEADLOCK
ConfereeS Unable to Agree
on Amount of Federal Share
of Appropriation.

Still in a deadlock over the lump-sun
appropriat ton for the District OF Co!um-
bia, the House conferees, following d
meeting with conferees of the Senate
Yesterday. went back to the House 10
ask for further instructions.
With both houses of Congress refusing
to yield, the House standing pat on the
SO 900 600 sum and the Senate adamant
on S1i .OOO, 900, the meeting late yester-
day afternoon was arranged in order to
reach some sort of compromise.
StfII in Disagreement.
The meeting lasted scant half hour,
and it was evident when the conferees
filed out of the Senate appropriations
committee room that they were still in
disagreement.
Practically all the points in the bill,
with the exception of the amount of the
lump sum, have been settled, 1T is under
stood. Although the Senate struck out
the provision for two extra judges for
the Police Court, and the House put 1t
back in the bill, there is expected to be
no controversy over this item, as passage
of the traffic bill containing this pro-
vision will automatically provide the
authority for their appointment.
No Further Meetings i'm View.
No further meetings of the conferees
were set following the disagreement
yesterday. 1t is expected, however. that
the House will send its representatives
back with the same instructions as be-
fore, and that another meeting will be
arranged in the next day or two.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
Hospital Orderly
PIunges to Death
In Elevator Shaft
T. F. Harrison empted
to Release Stalled Car
at Georgetown.

The slipping of a chair which
Thomas +. Harrison, so years old.
orderly at Georgetown University
Hospital. was using to aid him in
crawling into an elevator, stalled be-
tween the third and fourth floors.
plunged him to instant death at the
foot of the shaft last night.
The elevator had stopped because
of current trouble. Harrison crawIed
out and down into ward safely, al
though the elevator was some dis
tance from the third floor level. Re-
pairing the trouble, he mounted a
chair to get back into the car. The
chair slipped as he reached for the
elevator floor. He gripped the edge
of the elevator, hung in space for a
few seconds while calling for as
sistance. and then as attendants were
hurrying to his aid, his grip relaxed
and he fell to the bottom of the shaft.
DR.. Greenlaw Of Georgetown Hos
pital, after examining the body, stated
that death was probably instan-
taneous. Coroner j. Ramsay hewitt
issued a certificate of accidental
death.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
DISABLED SOLDIERS
LEAGUE DEFENDED
Witnesses Heard by House Commit
tee, Which Is Considering Ma
tional Organizations Activities.

A defense of the activities OF the
National Disabled Soldiers League,
which has been under investigation
by a House committee, was begun
today when witnesses were produced
by the league. Before the hearings,
however. Abner Siegal, league coun-
sci, declared the organizations pa
pers were in the possession either of
the Federal grand jury here or of the
Post Office Department, which re-
Gently conducted an inquiry.
Mrs. Mary Todd, washington
boarding house proprietor, the first
witness, told the committee that John
T. Nolan, league national commander,
had sent more than 100 disabled vet
erans to her.
Chairman Fish interjected that her
bills to the league had increased
rapidly since the Investigation by the
Post Office Department, but Siegal
asserted that had it not been for the
league many Of the disabled men
would have died before the Veterans
Bureau and other organizations could
have afforded them relief.
Thirteen thousand dollars in cash
was paid out for disabled veterans
by the league, Siegal said, and
Chairman Fish replied that the COM
mittee knew of $275,000 in banks,
deposited in the leagues name, ito
say nothing OF cash, which amounts
to about $4,000"
Siegal read letters from Red Cross
chapters regarding veterans cases
handled by the league; kilograms
wiring money to ex-service men in
need, and receipts for doctors bills
the organization had paid for vet
erans. Money was collected from
the public through literature which
contained true statements, he said,
and no disabled man applied to the
league for relief without getting it..
A letter from Charles X, Forbes,
former director of the Veterans
Bureau, was read, commencing the
work of the organization and that
of Nolan.
Evening star., 1925-02-25

The "old" oratory-that Of forced
metaphors, mock chivalry, half day
speeches and pompous quotations in
Latin and Greeks gone. If any
tears are to be shed over it's passing,
they should be tears of thankfulness.
In reality it was not the old ora
tory that brought the most subtle Of
the fine arts into disrepute. 1t was
the intermediate oratory, as practiced
by men who acked the power to imi-
tate their predecessors in the great
art and without the imagination to
see that the function of the orator in
the late 18th and early goth century
was totally different from that of the
orator Of the 18th, or even the lst
century.
The early orators were the heirs to
the tasks and talents of the minstrels.
They were newspaper, prophet, seer,
public conscience, prosecuting at
torney, economist and poet all rolled
into one. Naturally, it took more
than 10 minutes for them to strut
their stuff" when they began un-
rolling. For instance, to refute an
opponent 1T was not enough to refer
to his remarks "as reported in the
newspapers There being no news
papers and hence no background of
general information, it was neces-
sary 10 repeat verbatim large parts of
what was to be refuted. Furthermore.
in many of their oratorical contests
the ancients had their fortunes and
their lives at stake. When two ora
tors competed on some serious issue
the loser could not count on a lame
duck appointment which would COM
pensate him for his defeat. In Greece
defeat meant exile or death. The
entire audience decided the issue.
Therefore the orator built up his
background for his argument care
fully enough to reach all of his
hearers. He also felt compelled to
devote hours to purely local phases of
the question, and often addressed
various individuals by name. 1t was
an extra-hazardous calling. Two of
the greatest orators of all time,
Demosthenes and Socrates, paid for
their words with their lives.
Turning to Rome, we find additional
proof of the price of eloquence. Take
the last act in the oratorical contest
between Mark Antony and Cicero.
Antony. after Caesars death, tried his
voice at stirring up the people. Cicero
took the opposite side. Unable to
outspeak Cicero, Antony put his
troops upon him. He cut off Cicero's
hands and sent them to some of his
friends. To his wife he sent Cicero's
head and that lady won a strange
immortality by sticking a needle
through the great orators tongue.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
KELLOGG DELAYS
TRIP TO CAPITAL
Envoy, Home, Declines to
Discuss Proposed Arms
Conference.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 25.-Frank
B. Kellogg who is retiring as Ambas-
sador TO Great Britain TO succeed
Charles Z. Hughes as Secretary Of State,
is spending a few days in New York
before going to Washington. He ar
rived from England yesterday with
Mrs. kellogg on the steamship Ber-
engaria.
Mr.. Kellogg said that from his OBJ
servations while abroad he was con-
vinced that Europe in the last year
had taken a great step forward,
Pointing out the effectiveness OF the
Dawes plan in the stabilization OF
currency, he said:
There is nothing of greater i'm
portance to the American people than
that Europe, and, in fact, all the world,
should go back to the gold basis.
Fluctuations I'm currencies make 1t
impossible to carry on commerce, and
as the United States always has been
on a gold basis, it is good to have the
whole world on that basis"
silent ON Conference.
Mr. Kellogg declined to discuss the
proposed Washington arms confer
ence. He said, however that he had
not brought back with him any plan
for the limitation of armaments. Re-
ferring to reports that he was in
poor health, he said: II never felt
better in my life"
The Secretary designate said Eu-
rope realized there was no short
cut or magic cure for the evils grow
ing out of the great war" and that
economy in private enterprise and in
government was the only means OF
rehabilitation.
II am not sure he added, that
some. of the programs worked out
Will solve the situation completely, but
1t is good thing. There is more
confidence in Europe today than
there was a year ago"
And how did the climate of Eng
land affect you?" Mr.. Kellogg was
asked.
"All right" Mr.. Kellogg replied
"All climates agree with me-"
VIII the Washington climate
agree with you?"
II think 1t will" said the former
Senator, smiling. II lived there for
six years and found it very good"
Evening star., 1925-02-25
TRANSPORT RA|DED
AND LIQUOR SEIZED
Marines Surround Beaufort
on Arrival From Cuba-In-
quiry to Follow.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, February 25-
Several hundred gallons of IiuuoB
were seized aboard the naval traps-
port Beaufort when she docked here
late last night from the West Indies
by detachment OF marines under
direction of Capt. Wilbert Smith, as
sistant commandant of the naval
base here. The liquor is said 10 have
been found in staterooms of various
officers, ranging in rank from pay
clerks to lieutenants.
The order for the raid on the Beau
fort was issued by Rear Admiral
Roger Welles, commandant Of the
fifth naval district, who is said TO
have received information of the
liquor being aboard the transport
from customs officials here. As soon
as the vessel was docked the marines
were thrown around her and no one
was permitted to leave until a thor
ough search was made of every cabin
and the cargo.
Inquiry to BE Made.
The confscated liquor was taken
to the administration building at the
base, where it will be held, ii was
stated today, until a court of inquiry
can be convened to investigate and
fix responsibility for it being aboard
the Beaufort.
While the Beaufort was being
searched all telephones out of the
naval base were kept under suryeu-
lance and the gates closely guarded.
Several automobiles which attempted
to get out of the reservation were
seized after they were found TO con-
tain liquor.
The Beaufort operates on regular
schedule between Norfolk and West
Indian ports and carries supplies and
passengers.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
POLICE MEASURE URGED.
Blanton Seeks Special Rule for
Woman's Bureau Bill.

The rules committee was briefly
urged by Representative Blanton of
Texas today to grant a special rule
making in order his bill to give the
Woman's Bureau in the Police De-
partment permanent status in law.
He explained that 1T now exists only
by sufferance and that the House
District committee favorably reported
his bill to protect that bureau under
the law and give it 10 additional
policewomen. He explained that
Lieut. Nina Van Wrinkle, head of the
department, had done valuable work
in protecting young girls.
The rules committee took no action
on Representative Blanton's appeal.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
PROMINENT VIRGINIA
PHYSICIAN DROPS DEAD
DR.. Howard Fletcher Of Warrenton
Was Head of MISUNDERSTANDING
d. c. Medical Body.
pecial Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
WARRENTON, Va, February 25-
DR.. Howard Fletcher, 40 years old, fell
dead yesterday in Jeffires' drug store
He first practiced medicine in Richmond
and lived for some years in Fairfax. Va
He was commissioned in the medical
department durang the World War
served in a training camp in Kansas.
He came to Warrenton six years ago
with his family.
Funeral services will be held at 8
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon. DIR,
Fletcher was born September IS. 1875
in Warrenton, the son of Albert and
Sallie Withers Fletcher. He was edu-
Gated at Randolph Macon College, TAX
ing the degree of A. NJ. He graduated
in medicine at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity in 1900. At the time of his death
he was president of the Maryland-Vir-
ginia- District of Columbia Medical As
sociation and a member of the South
ern Railway Association of Surgeons He
is survived by his widow, who was Miss
Matte Lee Parrish of Richmond, Va.
several children and a brother, Albert
Fletcher of Warrenton.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
MIDNIGHT CLOSING
OF BORDER REFUSED
United States Declines California
Plea to Extend Time at Tia
Juana and Calexico.

The request of California business
interests that the custom lines at Tia
Juana and Calexico, Calf, be kept
open until midnight instead of 9 pm.
each night, has been refused by the
Treasury Department.
The custom lines at the two points
were placed under the 3 o'clock
restriction about a year ago to pre-
vent Illegal traffic across the border
and to reduce crime in the southern
section of California. Recently, how
ever business interests have held
that the restrictions greatly hamper
them.
Assistant Secretary Moss, in an
nouncing the refusal of the request,
said the restriction has greatly re-
duced crime along the border.
Evening star., 1925-02-25

report of it's committee without ref
erence to himself or any one connect
ed with the project as a means OF
answering the uniformed and in
expert statements about the work"
He expressed interest in a proposal
advanced by Mr.. Holman ito suggest
definite plan for providing for the
completion OF the work and it's per-
manent care, upkeep and protection
after completion" asserting in his
reply that Organization Is soreIy
needed in the Office department OF the
association and Its relationship to the
world"
Mr. Holman. in a second letter, said
the investigation proposal would be
taken up with the Granite Producers
Association at once, and that he ex-
pected them to appoint "a committee
of competent persons to make the in
vestigation suggested by you and
render an impartial report direct to
the public"
"As to our suggested plan for ma
tionalizing the management of the
memorial, both to insure it's proper
completion without unnecessary in
terruption and to provide for it's
proper care afterward," Mr.. Holman
continued, I'VE have the following to
offer:
I'VE believe that these three prin
cipal thoughts should prevail con-
cerning the organization which will
have charge of the memorial now and
in the future: First, that the COM
mittee or association should be thor
oughly national in scope, represent
ing every important aspect of our
national life. There should be moth
ing local or sectional about it and
it should seek to emphasize our unity
g. L. LII .NvtA
prevailing throughout our land.
Second, as a work of art, this monu-
ment will unquestionably greatly
outlive any other material thing that
our present age has produced. There
should, therefore, be proper provision
for the perpetuation Of the committee
or association. Third, this committee
or association should be vested with
complete authority as to ownership,
titles and control of the memorial
and all assets pertaining to 1t and
should alone have authority to write
the history of the memorial and a
statement OF it's significance and
meaning, in an entirely impartial
and forwardlooking spirit.
Secs Need Of New Association.
ITO accomplish this, 1t would seem
that q new association would have
to be formed, representing in Its
membership all proper national,
State and civic organizations. This
will insure thorough representation
and a proper spirit of magnanimity
surrounding the noble undertaking.
This new association should receive
It's charter and authority from the
Congress of the United States in the
same manner as such organizations
as the American Legion and others.
This association should then proceed
in a scrupulously businesslike way
to carry out the finances and other
essential details and should make
proper reports concerning all these
details to the public from time to
time. Such an association would,
and could, with the public confidence
il would have, prevent all contro-
versy or delay or other circumstances
that would in any way affect the me-
mortal"
Evening star., 1925-02-25
VIOLATION OF DRY LAW.
Transport Case May Go to Federal
Court or Court Martial.

Violations of the law as well as
of Navy regulations apparently are
involved in the case of the Navy
transport Beaufort, which transports
ed liquor into Hampton Roads 1t
was pointed out here today by Cow
ernment officials.
No report has reached the Navy
Department, and the action to be
taken will not be announced until
Secretary Wilbur has had opportuni-
ty to study the case. 1t was said,
however, that those found guilty
might be tried either by q Federal
court for violating the prohibition
laws or by court-martial.
Under the prohibition law it is IL
legal to bring liquor into American
waters, and under Navy rules no
liquor may be kept aboard ships. In
most cases where the arrests are
made by Navy officers the trial is by
court martial.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
Turks to Attend Arms Farley.

GENEVA, February 25.-The Turk
ish government has signified it's in
tention of sending delegates to the
conference for control of interna-
tional trafic in arms, to be convened
here early in May. Some 80 nations.
including the United States and Ger
many, have thus far accepted the in
vitation to the conference sent by the
leagues secretariat.
Evening star., 1925-02-25
DROPS INDICTMENTS
IN ALLEGED FRAUDS
United States Attorney Closes Pros
ecution of Charges in Sale of
Surplus Lumber.

The war fraud prosecution over the
sale of surplus lumber from Army
cantonments was concluded today,
when United States Attorney Gordon
nolle pressed an indictment against
Rolad Perry of Washington, D. c.,
and Gus Eitzen and Mitchell A Tou-
art, jr., of Pensacola, Fla.
The men had been indicted with
John l. Phillips and others on a
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
United States through the sale of the
lumber Phillips and some of the other
defendants were tried last Summer
and acquitted. Perry was sick at the
time of the trial and with Eitzen,
and Touart was granted a separate
trial With the aequittal of the prin-
cipals in the case the Government
considered it useless to press the
charge against the remaining defend
ant, it is stated.