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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-30
VENERABLE HEADS :.
RULE OVER OXFORD.
American Practice of Elect
ing Younger Men on FaCuI-
ties Fr0Wned On.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OXFORD. England, March 3o.-The
twentieth century fashion of raising
young men to high places has as yet
found no champions in oxford. The
average age of the present heads of
colleges is just under 20 years, despite
q number of recent elections. mas
ter once lived to somewhat over 100,
and several heads who are now we'll
on in the eighties are ambitious
Of lettering his record. The prodigi
Gus age and spryness of these very
learned men proves the error of the
old monasti founders who, with a be-
lief that a sane mind could not exist
in a sound body. are said to have
picked upon oxford as the most un-
healthy town of their acquaintance.
Not Called on to Teach.
The duties of an oxford College
head are neither onerous nor agitating.
He personally admits all new under
graduates into his college, invites
them to breakfast once year, and
besides that sees very little of them.
Heads of colleges are not called upon
to teach or to lecture, they do not
speak at rotary club lunches, or in
dulge in frenzied financing cam
paignS.
Curiously enough, these men who
nave so llttle to DO IN mdndgl nS tnelr
respective colleges have everything
to do in the administration of the
university While they dispute with
the university and deny it's powers
and authority and object to It's
schemes, the fact remains that they
are, for all practical purposes, the
university themselves. Meeting in
solemn and heavy conclave called
convocation, they transact university
business, choose the university proc
tors and elect one another in turn to
the office of vice-chancellor, an an
nualIy created office analogous to the
presidency of a great American uni
yersity.
The convocation meets with much
ceremony in a room where no artificial
light is permitted, and its meditations
cease with the coming of darkness.
AS 1t is an afternoon function, much
more business is transacted in the
lighter months than in winter.
The headship of college is a life
Job, regulated only by the statutes.
Here a life job is long job, some of
the present heads having held their
places for nearly 40 years. The
average age of the present heads at
the time of their selection was little
over SO years. Older and older men
are being selected. most of the re-
Gently elected heads having passed
SO years of age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-30
RETURNS FROM FLIGHT
OVER CENTRAL AFRICA
Capt. Dagnaux Says Only Wooden
Leg Was Broken When
Plane Crashed.
Bvthe Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BORDEAUX, France, March 30
Capt. DagnauX, who was in COM
mand of the French plane which
crashed at Nancy, Africa, early in
February, while on the last lap of a
flight from Paris to Lake Tchad, ar
rived here yesterday. Speaking of
the reports of his accident, he said
humorously:
'They broke the wrong leg; I am
feeling like a charm. The leg which
was broken was a wooden leg. !
lost the original over Verdun in 1916.
Fortunately 1 had a spare wooden leg
aboard the plane"
Sergt. Vandaele was killed. Col.
Vuillemin, one of Frances aces, suf-
fered a crushed skull and iSergt.
Knecht was severely injured when
Capt. DagnauXs plane fell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-30
HOTEL PATRONS LOOTED.
Five Masked Bandits Open Fire
on Crowd.

WAYNE, n. J., March 30.-Five
masked men opened fire on a score
of patrons of Wilkes Hotel here
yesterday, wounding two men and,
after stripping the patrons of $1,000
in cash and jewelry, escaped in an
automobile.
Charles Manganey and his brother
Gus, both of Paterson, suffered bullet
wounds in the legs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-30

Most of them are trimmed with bands of
Summer fur about the bottom, tucks and
silk braid are other trimmings The mate
rails are plaids, soft-hnished velours and
green, ashes of roses, gray, Chill, ginger
snap, Madonna blue, lollypop pink, orange,
tan and leather. They are all crepe lined.
The furs used are chiefly the new fluffy
"Thibetine." There are misses and
women's sizes in the lot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-30

Gay because of the striking designs
and the vivid colorings that many of
these crepes display. Several of the
models have what is practically an
overdress of plain crepe, which permits
the yoke, the printed underskirt to
show, making very attractive COM
bination. Other materials. are striped
tub broadclothS, laurelette, plain
crepes and fannels. The trimmings
emphasize the vogue of the jabot, as
we'll as the influence of the flare which
is notable in the kick pleats and the
f1ounce. Women's and misses sizes in
the lot.
Kopo'c-Secopd E1oor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-30

Popular because so sensible, economic and
smart in appearance. You have tailored
suit when you wear the whole costume and
a dress for informal afternoon wear with
out the coat. The coats are made of poiret
twills, farlnels, rayon poplins, wool poplins
and hairline twills. The dresses are of fig
ured crepe, usually finished at the bottom
with broad bands of the same material as
the coat; short-sleeved dresses and long
sleeved coats. Shown in the popular colors
Misses and women's sizes.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
u. S. POSTS OPEN.
Government Needs Engineers, Ac-
q countants and Artisans.

The Civil Service Commission to-
day announced open competitive ex-
aminations to fill vacancies in the
following positions:
Junior engineer, various branch es
of the Government service, at $3.50
a year; engineer (civiD, at $4,000 a
year; associate engineer (civil, cleo
trical, mechanical, signaD, at $4,000
q year; assistant engineer (civil, cleo
trical, mechanical, signaD, at s2,4o0
a year, Bureau of Signals and Train
Control Devices and the Bureau of
Valuation, Interstate Commerce Com
mission; architectural craftsman, Of
fee of Constructing Quartermaster,
Washington, D. c., at S2,400 a year,
and United States Military Academy,
West Point, n. Y, at S2506 a year;
Junior physicist and Junior technol-
oEiSt, Bureau of Standards, at $3.50
year; minor laboratory apprentice,
Bureau of Standards, at 5000 a year;
assistant scientific aid, Bureau of
Standards, at $500 a year; senior
accountant and auditor, at $4,000 a
year; accountant and auditor, at So, 1000
a year; associate accountant and aud
itor. at S2,700 a year; assistant ac-
countant and auditor, at S2,400 a.
year; principal accounting and audit
Ing assistant, at s2,1O0 a year, Bu-
reau of Accounts and Bureau of Valu-
alton, Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, junior civil service examiner,
Civil Service Commission, Washing
ton, D. c., at sl,500 a year; bricklay-
er, at $1,500 a year; steamfitter, at
S1,500 a year; stationary fireman, at
$1,000 year, departmental service
at Washington, D. c., and the Indian
Service at large.
Full information and application
blanks may be obtained at the office
or the Civil Service Commission, 1924
f street.
Evening star., 1925-03-10

at the time of election. Charging Som
ators La Toilette, Ladd. Frazier and
Brookhart with disloyalty to the
party, Senator Ernst said they had
deliberately sought to wreck it and to
elect their own candidate for Presi-
dent on a platform which he said was
xioletive of its fundamental princi-
PIES
Senator Norbeck, Republican. South
Dakota, and Senator Borah both con-
tended that demotion of the insur-
gents would be vote against the peo-
pie of the West who had elected them
on the Republican ticket. Senator
Frazier charged that political radi-
calism" in the Northwest had been
brought about by the bosses of the
Republican party; that the present
situation, at least In his own State,
was due to a revolt of the farm ers
against the bosses because of failure
to carry out campaign pledges.
Norris Opposes Watson.
Senator Norris, who held the floor
during much of the session, made a
final protest against the selection of
Senator Watson as chairman of the
interstate commerce committee, the
body that deals with railroad legisla-
ton.
This will give the greatest of sat
isfaction to all of the railroads Of the
United States" he said. "They have
killed two birds with one stone. They
get rid of a man Ga Follette) they
do not want and get man they do
want. I don't think they could rake
the country and get man that would
suit them any better"
Evening star., 1925-03-10
SENATE INSURGENTS DENOTED
IN COMMITTEE RANK BY g.. O. p.
ote of 81 to IL Puts StantieId Ahead of Ladd.
Democrats Mainly Stand Aside in Party Ro,U.
BOrah Sees Peril

effort TO upset the organization pro-
gram, but some of them did voice
their protest at the election or Sem
ator Watson of Indiana as chairman
OF the interstate commerce commit
tee over Senator La Toilette of Wis
consin, who outranked the Indiana
Senator.
On the roll call on final approval
of the committee states, Republican
and Democratic, seven Republicans,
three Democrats and the Farmer
Labor Senator, Shipstead. of Mime
sofa, voted in the negative. The Re-
publicans were Borah, Brookhart,
Frazier. Howell, Ladd, Norbeck and
Norris. and the Democrats were
Blease. Walsh of Montana and
Wheeler.
Recalls Roosevelt Bolt.
Senators Norris of Nebraska and
Borah of Idaho led the fight against
their party's program, with Chair
man Watson of the committee ON
committees and Senator Ernst of
Kentucky carrying the brunt OF bat
tie for the organization.
There were frequent references in
the debate to the Roosevelt revolt in
1912 and the failure to penalize his
supporters. In that connection, Sena-
TOT bOTan Sal0 InaL II the support OF
the party candidate for President was
the test of Republicanism quite a
number OF Senators would have to be
read out of the party.
Disclosing that he had not voted
for President Taft in 1912. and also
had not supported two Republican
governors of Idaho, Senator Borah
said that IL the test was support of
party nominees he himself might not
be able TO class as a Republican.
"Are you a Republican," asked
Senator Ernst.
'I think / am" returned Senator
Borah.
That's a question" retorted the
Kentucky Senator.
Watson Defines Test.
The Idaho Senator said that around
election time leaders of the party cer-
tainly regarded him as a good Re-
publican and called on him to help in
the campaign.
Senator Watson declared the test of
Republicanism was support of both
the candidate and the party platform
Evening star., 1925-03-10
DISTRICT TO SEEK
: BEST IN SCHOOLS.
Committee Starts Friday to
/ Study Building Types in
3 Other American Cities.

The study of schoolhouse construc-
tion to be made by q committee of
school and municipal authorities be-
fore definitely launching the gigantic
S19,0oO,00O school building program
will be started Friday in Baltimore.
The committee will go to Philadel-
phia Saturday and next week viii
map out another itinerary, which will
include Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago
and other cities.
Types of new schools, as well rs
comparative analysis OF construction
in the various cities, will be made by
the committee. This data. viii form
the basis of a comprehensive report
70 be written by Ernest Greenwood
vice president of the Board of Educa-
tion and chairman OF the inspection
committee, which also consists or
StIpt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou and
Albert l. Harris, municipal architect.
Mr.. Greenwood will act as the lay
member of the committee. while DR..
Ballou and Mr.. Harris will act as ex-
perts DR.. Ballou in school admins
tration and Mr.. Harris in architecture.
Thanks Voted Commissioners.
The Board of Educat ation today voiced
fits gratitude to the Commissioners
for the part they played in bringing
about the authorization by Congress
of the $19000,000 for new school
projects A letter received by the
Commissioners from the board read:
Much of the credit for this accom-
plishment is due to the valiant service
to the cause of public education
rendered by the various capable Of
ficials directly identified with the Dis
trict Government. This fact is cheer
fully admitted by the Board of Educa-
ton to the degree that at recent
meeting of the board a motion was
passed directing that the thanks of
the board be rendered to certain Dis
trict officials most directly identified
with the recent progressive legisla
tion by their successful participation
In it, as an expression of grateful ac-
acknowledgement.
Foremost among those names as
contributed their labors and influence
to our forward looking project are
the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia Please accept the sincere
thanks of the board rendered by the
unanimous vote of the members
Evening star., 1925-03-10
ORATORY STUDENTS
TO HEAR BIG DEBATE

Members Of the pupils committees
of local high schools, engaged In the
preparatory work for The stars ora
torical contest this year, today were
extended special invitations to attend
the debate on capital punishment be-
tween Senator A. o. Stanley, former
Governor of Kentucky, and Clarence
Darrow of Chicago, VINO oe1enoed
Loeb and Leopold.
In making the announcement, the
committee in charge of the debate
pointed out tha. this occasion would
present an opportunity for the young
participants in the oratorical contest
to assimilate and digest points in the
finer elements Of public speaking
which would be difficult to discover
elsewhere Senator Stanley Is up
holding the present system sof capl-
tai punishment, and Mr.. Darrow is a
lifelong adherence to the theory that
infection of death by the State, as a.
collection of individuals. differs in no
essential from the dealing of death
by an individual.
Tickets are being dispatched today
to pupils and members of the faculty
of each high school most interested
in the oratorical contest, in the belief
that they will be able to bring
back essential points in oratory which
ants in each school.
Those thus far listed by the man
ayers of the oratorical contest to re-
ceive tickets, are:
Eastern High School - Kingland
Prender, Margaret Hoover and Olin
Everett of the student committee, and
Principal Charles Hart.
Mckinley High School - Charles
Miner, Katherine Chase and John w.
Mauchly of the student committee,
and Principal Frank c. Daniel.
Business High School-Anna White,
Rose Weinstein, Virginia Keltley, Jo-
seph Reichgut and Paul Graves of the
student committee, and Miss M. Man
ming, chairman of the faculty COM
mittee.
Western High School - Miss S. H.
Gardner, chairman of the faculty COM
mittee, and three students, names to
be announced later.
Central High School-Mr. Lutz, in
charge of the arrangements, and
three students to be selected before
Saturday.
Dunbar High School &C. Daniel
Houston.
Armstrong High School-George H.
Murray
Evening star., 1925-03-10

Formal approval OF the demotion OF
the La Toilette insurgents from their
rank on the standing committees was
given yesterday by the Senate.
The vote was 81 to IL and came after
five hours debate. confined largely to
the Republican side. Democratic lead
ers interrupted occasionally. but mainly
to reiterate their desire to keep clear
OF the row within the Republican ranks.
The real test as to whether the ma
jority party was to complete organiza-
tion of the Senate, according to a pro-
gram determined upon Immediately
after the 1924 elections. came on the
proposal to remove Senator Ladd OF
North Dakota, one of the insurgents,
from the Craftsmanship of the public
lands committee.
stanheId Defeats Ladd.
Senator stanfield Of Oregon. the ma
jority candidate, was elected, receiving
SO votes to 13 for Ladd and for Sena-
tor Jones, Democrat, New Mexico. Sem
ators Wheeler, Democrat, Montana; La
Follette's running mate on the inde-
pendent presidential ticket last Novem-
ber; and Copeland, Democrat, New York,
supported .Ladd, while Senator Bruce.
Democrat, Maryland, voted for Stanfield.
Twenty-Five Democrats voted pres
ent, as did Ladd and Stanfield. The
roll call follows:
For Stanfield:
Republicans-Bingha Butler, Cam
eron, Cummins, Curtis, Dale, Deneen,
du Pont, Ernst Fess, Gillett, Goff
Gooding. Hale, Harreld, Jones OF
Washington, Keyes, Mckinley, Nc
Lean, McNary, Means, Metcalf, Moses
Oddie, Pepper. Pine, Reed of Penn
sylvania, Sackett. Schall, Shortridge
Smoot, Spencer. Wadsworth, Watson
and Willis. Total, 35.
Democrat-Bruce, Maryland. Total
36.
Lineup for Laad.
For Ladd:
Republicans Borah, Brookhart
Couzens, Fernald, Frazier, Howell
johnson of California, McMaster, Nor
beck and Norris. Total, 10.
and Wheeler
p.
Farmer-Labor-Ship 1. Total
IS.
For Jones:
Democrats - Blease, Hefin and
Walsh of Montana. Total, 3.
Senators Ladd and Stanfield voted
present" as did 25 Democrats. SEN
ator Jones of New Mexico was absent
Convinced by this roll call that
their fight was a losing one, the Re-
publican insurgents made no further
Evening star., 1925-03-10
FIND IS IMPORTANT.
DR.. Reisner Expects Details on New
Tomb Today.

BOSTON, March 10.-Dr. George A
Reisner, curator of the Egyptian
department of the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts and professor of Egypt
ology at Harvard, who heads the
joint expedition which has been con-
Quoting exploration in Egypt for IS
years, last night imputed the newly
discovered tomb to some lesser per-
sonage than King Seneferu or King
Cheops, although he did not min
imize the Importance of the find to
the knowledge of early Egyptian his
tory
1T is an important find. but almost
certainly it is not the tomb of Sene-
feru," he said.
DR.. Reisner, who arrived in this
country a month ago for few
months vacation, is staying at a Bos-
ton hotel Stating that, in his be-
final resting place of Seneferu, while
the body of Cheops was believed to
have been thrown into the Nile by
his slaves, DR.. Reisner said the
newly discovered tomb may be that
of a royal retainer. He expected more
detailed advices today.
The scene of the new find is within
100 yards of the great pyramid of
Cheops and within 300 yards Of the
SPHINX WHcTc lOuTlStS ,pdSS. = ne sU-
foot shaft is about so feet square.
Working 20 Years.
The work is on the same plateau
with all the great pyramids. This pla-
teau is solid rock, covered with debris.
The expedition for 20 years has been
patiently clearing strip after strip and
then testing the apparently solid rock
for openings packed with debris almost
as solid.
In this work the expedition has en-
ployed 200 trained men.
"Any man who has not been with US
for 10 years is regarded as a greenhorn, %
Dr. Reisner said.
This force has sometimes removed as
much as 500 tons of debris in a day
Eventually t is hoped to strip the
whole plateau of Gizeh in this manner
to permit the reconstruction of the his
tory Of the great cemetery of the pyra-
mids.
Such task in miniature was accom-
plished several hundred miles to the
south in the Sudan, where the pyra-
mids of the ancient civilization of
Ethiopia were excavated and the whole
history of the Black Kingdom and its
capital Merce, reconstructed.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
IDENTITY IS DOUBTED.
Egyptologists Do Not Believe
Tomb Is Seneferu's.
By the Associated Press.

by Lne Aesoclat teo fross.
CAIRO, Egypt, March 10. - AL
though it is generally hoped that
the newly discovered tomb at Giza,
unearthed by the Boston-Harvard
expedition, contains the mummy of
the Pharaoh Seneferu and records of
his reign, there is considerable doubt
as to this among the Egyptologists
here. A number of them consider
1t unlikely that a King who built
himself two pyramids-at Medium
and Dahshur-should finally have
been so modest as to order his own
interment 90 feet below the surface,
thus obliterating the. personality Of
the powerful and prosperous ruler.
They therefore express the opinion
that 1t is unwise to raise great hopes
at present lest the public be disap-
pointed if the sarcophagus reveals only
the mummy of a member of the
Kings family, or even perhaps some
retainer, such as serving man or
barber.
II is pointed out that observation
of the interior of the tomb so far
has been only. slight, as only a rela-
lively small opening has been pierced,
and the light was none too good
when the observations were made.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
Fights Fire to SAGE
Home; Aged Woman
Is Seriously Burned

Although badly burned herself
and almost strangled by the dense
smoke, Mrs. Mary Austin, 7s years
old, of 1116 Park road northeast,
refused to desert her home when
fire broke opt early today until
firemen arrived.
Mrs. Austin and her daughter,
Miss Eta H. Austin, a clerk in the
Census Bureau, occupy the second
floor of the premises. The elder
woman got up early this morning,
struck a match to see the time
and returned to bed again. A
spark from the match is believed
to have ignited the blaze.
A short time later Mrs. Austin
aWoke to find her room in flames.
Staggering through the smoke, she
seized a blanket and began beat
ing out the fire until engine COM
panies arrived and extinguished
the blaze. Mrs. Austin refused to
go to a hospital.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
TAKOMA PARK ASKS
SUBWAY OUTLETS
Citizens Association Hears
Issue Stressed by Presi-
dent Guy Clinton.

The immediate need OF street out
let's to the proposed subway at
Lamond's crossing, on Van Buren
street, was stressed last night by DR..
Guy Clinton, president of the Takoma
Park Citizens Association, at a
meeting held in the Takoma Public
Library.
The Importance OF opening these
streets was pointed out by the
speaker, especially in view of the
locating of new public school at
Fifth and Sheridan streets. Capt.
C. ". Johnson, chairman of the
streets and lights committee, re-
ported that no plans had been pre-
pared for street openings or ex-
tensions in connection with the sub
way. All land on one side Of the
subway, he continued, had been dedi-
Gated to the District, but further
street improvements were necessary
on the other side.
The membership approved the re-
port of the executive committe OF
the association providing for the or
ganization of kindergarten class at
Takoma Park.
F. c. Merritt, chairman of the parks
and Fairgrounds committee, stated
that under the last appropriation bill
the sum of $500, 900 had been pro-
vided for use of the National Capt.
tai Park Commission and that he had
taken up the matter of securing
children's playground in the vicinity
of Takoma Park. A meeting of the
commission, he said, would be held
March 18. He also made a report on
two meetings of the Federation of
Citizens Associations. Walter Trey,
the other delegate to the federation
also spoke.
The widening of Fourth street at
it's junction with Blair road and Cedar
street was discussed and the Engi-
neer Commissioner of the District Will
be consulted as to the possible date
when work will be commenced.
Evening star., 1925-03-10
]. A. CONNOLLY DEAD.
Funeral Tomorrow, With Burial in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.

Joseph A. Connolly, 80 years old,
formerly an employe of the Navy De-
partment and the Department of JUS
tice, died at his home, 1885 Irving
street, Sunday after a lingering ILL
ness.
Mr.. Connolly was educated at Con
zaga College and Western High
School. He was at one time an in
structing coach in academic subjects
at the Naval Academy.
He is survived by his parents, Jere-
niah aid Bridget A. Connolly of this
city; two sisters, Mrs. Virgil P. Meyer
of Winston-Salem, n. C., and Mrs.
William F. Goddard of Washington,
and two brothers, Frank A and Alloy
sius B. Connolly, both of this city.
Funeral services will be conducted
at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church
tomorrow morning at o'clock. Inter-
ment will be in Mount Olivet Gene
terry.