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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-29

Habit is so. strong, said Uncle
Eben, dat it's hard foh a man to say
anything original In New Year reso-
luton"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-29
Jud Tunkins saws il Santa

weren't myth there might be a
chance now and then to persuade him
to have heart and think of the .Janu.
airy bills.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-29
Some Solace.

From the Des Moines Tribune.News.
Anyhow, we won't he bothered by
bees, mosquitoes or flies for a while.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-29

:; the Evening Star. with the sunday morn
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-29
MESA. CANYON AND PUEBLO.
Charles f. Lummis. The Century

MESA. CANYON AND PUEBLO.
Charles F.. Lummis The Century
Co.
DO you know that thousands upon
thousands of years ago the southern
end of California was tropical
junSle-such as parts of Asia and
Africa are today? This is one of the
stories that science is just now push
ing into the open for everybody to
read. And the record goes on to tell
that in this American Jungle great
animals lived-huge elephants and
tigers. the bison and the camel the
giant sloth and many another crea.
ture of enormous size. And gradually.
so the tale runs, there came a great
change. The jungle dried out. The
lakes and rivers disappeared. Then
came thirst--the cruelest enemy of
man and animal and plant. And
many of the creatures died of 1t. But
at a certain place, there was a deep
pit of asphalt through which oil
dubbed to the surface. There it
which the infrequent rains fell and
stood. This became water hole, to
which the thirsty packs from far and
wide came down to drink. But--a
step too far and the animal was
caught in "the strangest trap in the
world" His feet caught in the sticky
mass of asphalt and oil, down and
down he began to sink. No hope of
getting out from this trap" no mat
ter how fiercely he thrashed about
and called aloud in rage and terror.
And other animals preyed upon this
one. And they too, were caught and
begged down. This pit became the
burying ground of numberless trap
ped animals-great creatures utterly
strange to the America that we know.
And there it remained, age upon age,
in slow changes up to the present
time. Then science and industry be-
gan to explore the asphalt pit. In
dustry gathered oil from this center
of the great California Oil output.
Science found the bones of hundreds
of those strange animals caught in the
asphalt trap. These they have rebuilt
into the skeletons that, in life, sup
ported the bodies. And these recon.
structed forms are the basis Of the
great story of an age-old day when
America was the home of animals
that have long since passed away.
Just one of the stories out of this
completely fascinating book written
by a man VINO for 40 years has lived
Evening star., 1925-07-01
DECLINES TO COMMENT.
Admiral Robinson Refuses to Divluge
Oil Lease Facts.

The interview in the New York
Times with Edward L. Doheny pur-
porting to give out national secrets
which were withheld in the court
proceedings involving the oil leases
developed no comment when shown
Rear Admiral Robson, chief of the
Navy Bureau of Steam Engineering
today.
Admiral Robson said that he had
described his conference with Doheny
in all testimony before the Los
Angeles court and in deposition
put in the record In the Cheyenne,
Wyo., court.
The interview which was referred
to In the Times story said the con-
ference between Doheny and Robi-
son was in New York, but the ad.
miral stated that it was his recol-
lection that 1t was in his office at
the Navy Department in Washing
ton. and he thought he had stated
this in his testimony before the court
He would not comment on the
matter Of the foreign relations as
described in the interview, pointing
out that such questions as were in
volved In the Oil leases had been de-
clared by Secretaries Hughes and
Kellogg and Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur as confidential.
Evening star., 1925-07-01
.P.O. ADMITS COURT
ORDER VIOLATION
New Says Injunction Ruling OBJ
tanned by Firm Was Broken
by Mistake.

Harry S. New, Postmaster General
of the United States. today admitted
the charge that an injunction of the
District Supreme Court had been vio-
lated by the Post Office Department,
but claimed it was unintentional. The
insertion Of the name of the Tribond
Sales Corporation Of New York in the
semi.monthly official report Of the de-
partment as having a fraud order
against the company was a clerical
error, the cabinet member declared,
and in a subsequent issue attempt was
made to correct the mistake.
Justice James Francis Smith de.
clined to discharge the rule against
Postmaster New and declared a. con.
tinuance would be granter. so that re-
course could be had to the rule in the
event of any further publication by
the department of notice of d fraud
order.
Injunction had been issued by the
court against the enforcement of the
fraud order, and when the name of
the company appeared in the official
report Of the department Attorneys
Edward T. Colladay and Harry S.
Barger, for the company, secured the
rule in contempt against Postmaster
General New.
Evening star., 1925-07-01
CITIZEN SOLDIERS .
IN ENGINEER CAMP
100 "Second-Year Men" of
Sd Corps Area Arrive at
Humphreys for Training.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Opccidl D1spdtch 10 Inc star.
FORT HUMPHREYS, Va. July l..
One hundred youthful citizens, who
have decided they would like to be
engineers in the event Of another war,
and who are willing to spend 80 days
Of their Summer vacations preparing
themselves for such service, arrived at
Fort Humphreys today and will be
given a month Of intensive instruc-
ton.
The first IS days of training will be
given by officers and mep Of the 305th
Reserve Regiment of Engineers. com.
manded by Col. w. I. Lee OF Charles
City. Va. With Col. Lee are Capt. O.
B. Street, Capt. L. w. Jacobs. Lieut.
F. Elliott, Lieut.. II. c. Land and
Lieut.. p. j. b. Murphy, all of Vir
ginia. The last Is days of training
will be turned over to the 304th Re
serve Regiment Of Engineers.
Have Had Years Training.
All of the citizen soldiers assigned to
Fort Humphreys are second year
men, When a youth first signs up for
the Citizens Military Training Camp
he is sent to a large concentration
NSNA'iP ~ iAAS III ~ y col dllu Slten Il
general training in all branches of mil
itary science and tactics. At the end
of that period he is obliged to elect
one branch and specialize in it and
the next year is assigned to a special
camp accordingly.
Artillery, Infantry and Cavalry re
cruits were sent TO Camp Meade anG
only those who chose the Engineer
Corps were sent to Fort Humphreys
which has been equipped solely for the
important work Of that branch of the
service. Col. Lee will be in command
OF the rookie company until the STAFF
OF the 304th Regiment arrives on July
Is and assumes its share OF the bur
den.
Recruits arriving here today were
selected from all sections of the SC
Corps Area. Those coming from the
West and North were met in Washing
ton and escorted to cars that brough,
them to Alexandria. The remainder OF
the trip to camp was made in motor
trucks and the first thing the youth
full rockies received upon entering
camp was good. hot dinner.
Evening star., 1925-07-01
SCOPES NOT AFTER
PUBLICITY, He SAYS.
Only Object in Originating
Evolution Case Was to
Test the Law.
BY the Associ ated Press.

BY the Associ ated Press
theater for the coming trial. of. John
T. Scopes, appeared undisturbed to-
day by the absence of the chief actor
in Tennessee's evolution drama. The
young school teacher visited at his
home, in Paducah, Ky, while prepara-
tions continued for his trial on
charges of teaching evolution in VIC
lation of the State law.
DR.. George w. Rappleyea. original
prosecutor of Scopes. told the Asso-
ciated Press yesterday that pub
lished report that he had instigated
purposes was without foundation.
while l originated the case and
served at first as prosecutor in the
matter, / did 1t with no Interior mo-
tive. My only object was to bring
about a test Of the evolution law"
The report chara cterized as errone-
Gus was not carried by the Associated
Press.
Action by the American Federation
of Teachers. convened in Chicago, was
expected on a resolution denouncing
the Tennessee evolution law.
Teaching Held Menaced.
e The proposed resolution, in part,
said: In certain States Of the Union
teaching as a constructive social func-
ton has been menaced and may be
menaced again by. nnisguiding legisla-
tive authority that fears to trust the
intelligence. the public spirit, and the
devotion TO duty OF the profession
whose desire it Is to serve the people
by training children for intelligent
citizenship.
THE reactionary Lusk School laws
in the State OF New York, abolished in
1923 after trial Of two years: the
Greene law Of California, proposed
In 1921. and dealing with the matter
Of controlling the opinion OF the
teachers, as we'll as numerous bills in
several States that have been de-
signed to censor the writing and
the teaching of history in the schools
all reflect the same unfortunate sus-
picion and mistrust Of educational in
telligence which the Tennessee anti
evolution law conveys"
SCOPES BACKING ASKED.
Evening star., 1925-07-01
SCOPES BACKING ASKED.
Federation Of Teachers Considers
Resolution OH Evolution.

CHICAGO, July 1 CP.-The Amer.
lean Federation Of Teachers has been
asked to back John T. Scopes in the
forthcoming test OF the Tennessee
evolution law.
In a resolution submitted to the rep.
resentatives OF 10000 teachers, meet
ing here the federation offers all en-.
couragement to the American Civil
Liberties Union and all other organiza
tions and individuals who are engaged
in defending John T. Scopes. the
teacher in Tennessee
Evening star., 1925-07-01
WHAT is EVOLUTION?
By Len,uel F. Parton

, into biological determinism" which
again assails the old ethics and the old
revelations
Issues in Great War
Why is all this. important? How
does 1t affect the average man? Read
Bfsmarck's address to the German II
Reichstag of 1882. 1t reveals an in
teresting instance of the continuous
transmutation of PHILOSOPHERS into the
stuff Of everyday life. Bismarck as
sails Spencer's doctrine of the "laisser
faire"-the individualistic conception
OF the organization of life and indus
try-and -contemptuously scraps the
British industrial system as outworn
and useless in the light Of modern
science. Then. on the basis of evolu.
tionary teaching. he lays the founda-
lions OF the later semi-socialized Ger
man state, and the exaltation of
might as the only biological justifica-
ton. Windelband, Eucken and other
German philosophers supplied the phi
losophical buttresses to this theory of
statehood; for three decades the con-
troversy ragged In seminars, in lecture
halls, In text books and treatises-and
then it. was echoed by the guns of
Verdun. g..
Profound Issues Involved.
1t is not the province of these arti-
cles to draw the line between the
proved and the conjectural, or to as
sess evolution with its perversion by
the German pundits. The foregoing is
| cited merely in emphasis of the fact
that the Dayton hearing is something
more than a monkey trial.; that il
Involves issues of profound and search
Ing Importance; that it Is the dramatic
denouement Of human drama which
began when man first sought an an.
swer for the enigma of life
In the succeeding chapters of this
series an effort will be made to state
clearly the general outlines of the
theory Of evolution. without regard to
the controversial issues involved or
the fundamental truth or falsity of the
| theory.
| Continued Tomorrow
Evening star., 1925-07-01
$50 q Plate Dinner
Climax of Outing of
Ne,U York Walters
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, July 1.--Playing
the part Of the kings, presidents
and millionaires whom they had
served In. the past years. 20 old
time walters of the Millionaire
Walters Club have climaxed their
second anpual outing with $30-a-
plate dinner.
Each started the day about noon
yesterday with a perfumed bath.
Each found a limousine with a
chauffeur at the door and motored
through Long Island, visiting eX-
elusive country clubs.
The dinner started with caviar,
proceeded through eight courses
and ended with 81 cigars. Lesser
servitors bowed deferentially. They
had as guests the mayors" of De
lancy and Grand streets and 100
other prominent East Siders.
After dinner they exchanged
"reminiscences Of serving the late
Theodore Roosevelt, Oscar Straus.
the late Jacob II. Schiff, J. p. Nor
gan and other notables.
Evening star., 1925-07-01
FEAR OF "ENVIRONMENT"
HELD CAUSE OF SUICIDE
Student, Found Dead, Leaves Note
Saying the World Is Zone
Gigantic Fake"

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 1.-The philos-
ophy of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer
was too strong for Jack Greenwald
the police decided today, when the
body of the student was found in the
gas-filled bathroom of his home.
A note was found in his handwrit-
ing which read:
The world is gigantic fake: if
you have any genius but no money,
kill yourself at once, for your en-
vironment will kill you by degrees"
1t had been written, other evidence
indicated, while Greenwald had been
reading NietZsche's "Genealogy OF
Morals" An open gas jet showed the
avenue taken by the young student to
escaped the feared environment"
Evening star., 1925-07-01
MRS. SELDOM FILES SUIT

NEW YORK, July 1 @.-Mrs.
Mary Woodson Seldow, Washington
girl whose mother found her secretly
married here after a long search, to.
day filed a petition in the Supreme
Court In Brooklyn for annulment Of
her marriage with Jack Seldow.
At the same time Mrs. Augusta
Seldow, who was welded to Seldow
seven years ago, filed a divorce suit.
Seldow il serving a. term in Sing Sing
for bigamy as a result Of his marriage
to the Washington girl.
Evening star., 1925-07-01
SYMINGTON DIVORCE
THROWN FROM COURT
would Not Believe Chambers Un.
der Oath" Judge Declares in
Discussing Suit.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. July 1.-Supreme
Court Justice Ford today threw out
of court the divorce suit of Thomas
H. Synlington, wealthy manufacturer
against Mrs. Ida May Symington. in
which he charged intidelity. Trial OF
the case was nearing it's end.
Justice Ford dismissed the action or
the ground that the plaintiff had mot
presented any evidence emitting him
to a. divorce. except the testimony OF
Talbot w. Chambers" one Of the two
men named as correspondents. The
justice said he would not believe
Chambers under OATH
Chambers is now under indictment
for adultery as the result of the teS
timony which he gave at the trial
Ten of the specifications of miscon
duct contained in the complaint had
been withdrawn by counsel before the
case was thrown out Of court These
related to charges Of misconduct By
Maurice Fatio. an architect, with
Mrs. Symington. Fatio could not be
obtained to testify at the trial
Evening star., 1925-07-01
MRS. URBINA SEEKING.
" DIPLOMAT HUSBAND
Widow Of Col. Oracle Wants Spouse
for Locking Her. Up and
Choking Her.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 1.-The former
Mrs. Constance Setback Oracle, widow
of Col. Archibald Oracle, who was the
last man saved when the Titanic sank,
has appealed to the Washington police
to aid her in searching for her 32-year-
old husband, Humberto Aguirree de
Urbina. who disappeared after a party
in their suite in the Hotel Neither
land two weeks ago.
Urbina, who claimed to be a Chilean
of ancient lineage. and clerk in the
Chilean embassy at Washington, is
not a diplomat. her counsel said today,
but a restaurant dish washer. A de-
tective also is searching New York
restaurants for him.
Mrs. Urbina said she would prefer
charges that her husband locked her
up in their Washington home and
choked her.
They were married in this city in
April, 1924 Mrs. Oracle gave her age
as Al. Crbina gave his occupation as
a foreign translator"
There are nine different grades of
adYpiralS in the british NAVY
Evening star., 1925-07-01
Just q Week Late.
a the London Passing Show

From the London Passing Show.
Boarder-I wish l had come here a
week ago.
Proprietress-Ah, that's very fiat
tering to my establishment
Boarder-Not at all; I mean !
should have preferred to eat this fish
then instead of now,
Evening star., 1925-07-01
OLD BLDGS. MADE NEW.
NEW BLDGS Constructed.
NJ. H. HERRIMAN-BUILDER,

THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL MEETING
of Local No. 90. o. P. c. F. I. A. THURSDAY
July >, at s pm. by order of President Nc.
Carraher., CHAS. +. O'BRIEN. Bus. Agent
wANTED-A RETURN LOAD OF FURNI-
ture from New York. Philadelphia or Balti.
more. SMITHS TRANSFER AND STOR-
Evening star., 1925-07-01
NO f27SI
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER OF THE
CURRENCY
tIf4t Y y =
Wa ashinEton. D C. Nav II

Washington. D. C.. May IL 1928
Whereas. by satisfactory evidence po E.
,ented TO the undersigned. it has been made
70 appear that The Northwest Nation al
Bank of WASHINGTON in the CITY Of Wash
iugton. in the District of Columbia has com
piled with all the provisions of the Statutes
OF the United States required to be complied
with before an ASSOCIATION shall be author
Now therefore I. E. W Stearns. Ac.ine
Comptroller of the Currency. do hereby certi.
y that The Northgest National Bank Of
the District of Columbia. is authorized to
commence the business of Banking as pro
yided in Section Fifty-one hundred and sixty
nine of the Revised Statutes of the United
States.
CONVERSION of Northwest Saving.
Bank of Washington. D. c. with a
main once and one branch. located
within the limits of the City Of
teeal.) Washington. District Of Columbia.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF witness
my hand and Seal of this Eleventh
day of May. 1925.
Evening star., 1925-07-01
FEAR OF HUGE WAR
LED TO OIL LEASE,
DECLARES DOHENY
Continued from First Page. }

Continued from First Page)
Secretary DENLY and Admiral Robi-
son.
Mr.. Doheny read the kilograms dur
ing the seven-hour interview. He said
they had been unearthed by his coun.
sci in the office Of the controller gen.
eral, attached to bills for the telegraph
tolls.
Evening star., 1925-07-01
SPECIAL NOTICES.

SPECIAL NOTICES.
WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
debts contracted by any other than myself
MARVIN B. BALDERSON. 800 G St sw So
ELKS' EXCURSION TO ADAMS ELECTRIC
Park. Park. Annapolis; MARYLAND, Saturday. July 4,
Lodge. No. so. and Auxiliary No. 8. I. B.
?. Q. E. Of ". Train leaving White House
Station. 18th and h sts. ne. 10 and II
street cars. Tickets. 80 round trip. 8.
THE SAMUEL c. PALMER Co NC. WILL
be closed Saturday afternoon. July 4th.
BUICK TOURING, LEFT BY ROBERT c.
Small to he sold at Weschler's, public auc-
ton. July IL. 1925.
CARPENTER-Jobbine remodeiing porches,
store fronts: good work: reasonable prices
cottages bungalows specially. Phone Lin
coin 993iW. %
WANTED-LOADS OR PART LOADS OF
furniture to and from New York Phila
and Richmond Va; also local moving. COR
SIGAN'S TRANSFER. sos n. Y. ave- Tel.
Evening star., 1925-07-01

Less than one-tenth of Ohio's 35 900
coal miners are now working full
tina.
Evening star., 1925-07-01
Acting Comptroller Of the Cc C1,rrenccv

have this day sold the drug store To-
Gated at 900 street NV; and known rs
McGuire's drug store 70 D., BENJAMIN H.
thank the public for their patronage and
hope that they will continue with nv srio-
Gus treatment and high-class service always
10 nn haa at McGu1Fe nri;s, dTMg store
Guiding Jun. 80. 1928, will ne paid by
McGuires drug store up TO and inciuiine
June 80. 1925. are to he paid to RoSr-- r
Evening star., 1925-07-01

There are nine different grades of
admirals in the British Navy.
Evening star., 1925-07-01

Continued Tomorrow
Evening star., 1925-03-26

painter who happened to be working
in the house at the time the raid
took place, but he was held never
theless.
This raid and the one that pre-
ceded it marked what police claim
Is a start of another city-wide sweep
by Asher. He and other agents hav-
ing been working under cover for
several weeks here, and additional
raids were planned for this afternoon.
The raid preceding the one on r
street, was at 2403 l street, on the
corner of New Hampshire avenue,
when five colored persons were ar
rested on charges of conspiracy. man.
ufacture and possession of liquor. A
50-gallon still and 1000 gallons of
mash was reported seized at this ad-
dress. Those arrested were:
James w. Britt, so, of that address
Mary Louise Britt, his wife: Walter
Mitchell of S3S New Hampshire ave-
nue.. IS; Edward Carnett of 2421
SHOWS court, Is, and Archie Gatling
of the l street address, 21.
Three Stills Operating.
The X street plant was located in
the attic. above the third floor. In
this section IA barrels of mash were
fermenting,. awaiting the stills, while
three large stills were being operated
over gas range. A condenser in
operation comprised large wash tub
into which coils were inserted. The
water therein was kept cool by a
hose conveying it from the bathroom
on the third floor. Another hose took
CONTINUED on Page g. Column 81
Evening star., 1925-03-26
RADIUM'S CURATIVE
VALUE is INCREASED
Multiplied Thousands of Times by
Method Found to Harness
New Gas.
By the Associated Press.

LONDON. March 26.-The experts
of Middlesex Hospital, in London, the
center of British radium research,
claim to have made an important dis
covery, enabling the curative value
of any given quantity Of radium to
be multiplied thousands of times.
Briefly, the discovery consists in
bottling radium gas, known as radon,
in tiny glass tubes. Radium emits
three kinds Of rays, known as alpha,
beta and gamma, but hitherto only the
gamma rays, which have been har-
messed. The present success concerns
the beta rays, which the experts
now are capturing, purifying, con-
densing and confining in glass tubes
a little thicker than human hair,
to which is given the name seeds"
These seeds" they are prepared
to distribute to other hospital for
curative purposes and suggest they
may prove useful in treating cancer.
although they deprecate the idea that
they are likely to prove revolutionary
or offer a certain cure.
The beta rays, which have a pro-
found effect upon the tissues Of the
body, hitherto have run to waste,
but now, bottled, they can be used
in conjunction with the gamma rays.
and 1t is from this use that greater
results are expected.
The alpha rays are very weak and
are regs rded as negligible.
Evening star., 1925-03-26
HOSPITAL ORDERLY
I'LL OF SMALLPOX
Man Who Served Food to Pa
tients Found to Be Suffer-
ing With Disease.

When John F. Petrasche, an employe
of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital,
walked into the health office in the
Officer Fowler about an eruption on his
skin he was pronounced a smallpox
patient and taken Immediately to the
District Smallpox Hospital.
DIR. Fowler said that Petrasche
told him that one of his duties at
Gailinger Hospital was to assist in
serving meals and that he had been
carrying food TO patients in four
wards.
DIR. Fowler made arrangements with
the Board of Charities not to admit
any more patients to Gallinger Hos
to determine what preventive steps
should be taken at the institution
Assistant Health Officer Ford went to
Gallinger Hospital this afternoon to
confer with the superintendent, Maj.
Patterson, to determine how many
persons at the building may have
come in contact with Petrasche.
DR.. Fowler stated that arrangements
probably would be made to vaccinate
all those at the hospital who have not
been recently vaccinated.
Petrasche went to see a physician this
morning to find out the cause of the
eruption on his skin, and the doctor he
visited, suspecting that it might be
smallpox, sent him to the Health Office
with a note.
DR.. Fowler said he recognized the
symptoms of smallpox as soon as the
man entered his office. He has been
sick since Sunday.