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Evening star., 1925-12-07


get a road contract from the State or
their materials are not being used
freely in road construction: third,
county officials who have heretofore
had complete control of highway
funds are mad because a new law has
cut them out of fertile field for graft
by turning control of the highway
funds over to a State highway COM
mission.
These latter, in particular, blame
me for what this new law has done
to theh. They want the funds OF
the State highways again in their
hands. In other words, my admins
tration has turned the road rascals
out and turned the people in-which
| is stating briefly the whole of the
| highway scandal in Texas.
Failed to Find Violation.
They have told ten thousand lies
about this highway commission. Yet,
| the grand jury, sitting for five weeks
here at the seat of government. hear
! ing all witnesses called by an un-
| friendly attorney general Ia gentle
man who has camped on my trail
since the first day | entered oftice)
failed and refused to find any viola
| ton of the law in the highway de-
! partment.
The attorney general has obtained
an agreed judgment for 100000
against a road contracting firm which
| contracted with the Highway Com
mission appointed by me, and his
! friends think he has made a great
name for himself that will land him
in the governor Office. Tempo
rarily, he and his friends are in high
glee.
| But this judgment obtained by the
| energetic attorney general has per
mitted the road company to quit their
! job when it is just half done. AS
soon as the people of Texas learn
the facts, the attorney general $
| boom for governor will blow up and
l will be relieved of that opposition.
In fact. 1t is blowing up now. 1t
| will not be long before he will be on
the run. and soon as the people
| pie get the facts in this case, the at
| torney general will be standing on
the defensive side of the fence.
Tomorrow l shall tell of my hight
with the klan
ICOpyriyht 1920
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But l perSevered-and the women
of Texas. by their prayers and their
influence and their votes. helped me.
My husband went out before the
our friends in all parts of Texas
rallied to us. In one of the bitterest
campaigns that Texas ever witnessed
IA campaign in which the men who
had been using the Women's vote for
years, the men who had rallied to the
standard of the hooded emperor of At
lanta Joined forces against me-in
such a campaign l was elected by a
majority Of more than 100,000 votes.
That is the crowd against me-a
crowd still mad at a woman, and a
ferguson woman at that, who could
defeat them in their own game.
Afraid Of Voters.
They are afraid to take another
chance at the polls. Now it is much
easier to discredit my administration,
they think-eaSier TO put me out and
to help their own crowd and their own
political futures.
1t is a wild, frantic, desperate
bunch. They have money-and they
Will use 1t against me, just as they
used it against my husband. They
now boast that they can raise private
islature whom they want to sit in my
ase as my jurors.
I do not believe any honest member
Of the Texas Legislature will take
such dirty money-yet l know the
crowd that will try to get such a plan
accomplished. l do not underestimate
their ability. I saw them work when
they forced my husband to resign his
office in 1917.
And while I realize what I am up
against and the character of enemy
that l must meet, yet I am fore
warned, and therefore forearmed. The
people cannot be deceived again.
Thank God this is a different Legis-
lature-and I do not believe that the
same crowd can put over another inn
parchment outrage.
Traced to Three Causes.
My immediate opposition in Texas
can be traced in almost every case to
one of three causes. First, some man
wants to be elected governor and his
friends are fighting me for that cause;
second, some interest or firm did not
Evening star., 1925-12-07
MORE THAN HALF MILLION
FIRE LOSS IN OHIO CITY
Three of Largest Business Blocks,
Including Masonic Temple. in
Portsmouth Destroyed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio. December T.
Fire yesterday destroyed three of
the largest business blocks in Ports
mouth causing loss estimated at
more than half a million dollars.
The fire started in the Masonic
Temple Building. at Fourth and Chill
licothe streets, and spread to the
Bragdon dry goods store and the of
flee building occupied by the Ports
mouth Public Service Co. The Ma
sonic Temple and the Bragdon build
ings and their contents were destroy
ed. The upper two stories of the
Public Service building were badly
damaged.
Sparks were carried by high wind
and caused Il number of smaller fires
TO buildings within a six-square radius
The United States distributed its
first issue of stamps in 1S49.
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annual SEA TRIPS
ORDERED FOR KING
Health of His Majesty Of Eng
land Affected by Damp
London Winters.
By the Associated Press


LONDON, December King
George will have to leave his misty Is
land domain for two-month sea. trim
every year, his medical advisers have
decided. The Mediterranean trip which
the King took last Spring was com
plete success, and an annual repetl
tion, preferably in the Spring, will be
necessary for the good of the regal
health, the physicians believe. HIS
majesty has weak lungs, which. with
the approach OF threeScore years, are
affected by the long. damp London
Winters.
The problem OF building another
new royal yacht to replace the obso-
lete Victoria and Albert, which is far
from a satisfactory sea cruiser, is
again being considered.
It is rumored that the new yacht
will be the most palatial cruiser ever
built in Great Britain, and that several
American designers will be asked u
submit plans for the new ship.
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Would Relieve President.

IN recommending that the detail Of
making appointments and signing
commissions of third-class postmasters
he taken off the hands of the Presi-
dent. the Postmaster General urged
legislation transferring the appointive
authority to himself. as is now the
case with fOurth-clasS poStma Sters
Postmastcrs Of The first and second
class. numbering about 1000. still
would be appointed by the President
Owing to the necessity for checking
each piece of air mail handled in the
contract air mail service. Il recon-
mendation was made that the law be
amended so payment to contractors
might be made on fixed rates per
pound instead of so per cent Of the
excess postage under the present law.
The present postage rate on news
papers and periodicals mailed by the
general public is excessive. the report
said. and as "a result there has been a
great falling off in mailings of this
character. A rate of | cent for each
> ounces was urged
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Italians ResentfuI
Because Valentino
Would Be American
By the Associated Press.

ROME, December IA move
ment has begun to boycott films
In which Rudolph Valentino ap-
pears because of resentment at his
action in seeking to become an
American citizen. The Popolo di
Roma publishes a letter from an
angry correspondent, who declares
1t is the duty of good Italians to
remain away from moving pic
ture theaters showing films which
feature "a renegade Italian
Kisses, boos and catcalls greeted
the announcement in one movie
house in Rome Of the forthcoming
projection Of a Valentino film to
be shown within a few days.
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Holenut for Daddy.

Doris. . years old. had been an
interested onlOoker while mother fried
douGhnuts and was much interest ed
in the holes" She sampled" them,
of course. and when daddy came home
in the evening Doris demanded "a
holenut' wod daddy"
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port made by Capt. ST. Clair STREET.,
| leader of the New York to Nome,
Alaska, flight of 1919.
Weather Reported Bad.
The weather conditions around
Nome are distinctly unfavorable for
flying the year round the witness
read from the report. He added as
his own comment this statement:
should an enemy attempt to fly over
from Asia, he would not be able to
wire ahead for weather information. "
An Asiatic power planning to at
tack the United States by air, the wit
ness declared in his discussion on the
feasibility of the subject. would have
three routes to choose from. The first
would be a nonstop flight from the
northernmost kurile Island TO the
Aleutian Island OF Attu; the second, TO
proceed from the Kurile point via
Petropavlosk and thereby avoid the
nonstop flight. while the third alter
native would be along the Siberian
coast and across the Bering Straight.
After reCiting these routes, the Wit
ness gave a lengthy discussion on
weather conditions along them, which
in effect, was they are perpetually
habited by ice. snow, hail and rain.
Would w NelcOme move.
The witness also said that If an at
lacking power from Asia decided TO
use its fleet in conjunction with the
air force it would be resisted by the
American feet operating from Oahu,
Hawaii. IF we were at war with an
Asiatic power" commented Comdr.
Frost, 1--WE would desire nothing more
| than that their navy attack Nome,
! Alaska
! Mr.. Reid submitted the witness to
| his usual strategical cross-examina-
| ton in an effort to break down his
rebuttal testimony but made little
| headway.
When he laid particular stress on
| aviation matters in this problem Maj
| Gullion came to his witness defense
| by declaring that he was not an ex-
pert on aeronautios. although he had
| qualified a naval aviator and had had
| 100 hours in the air.
1t was here that Mr.. Reid ceased
| his cross examination.
Burgess Is Heard.
| The other witness at the morning
| session was Charles y. Burgess of
! the Bureau of AeronauticS, a civilian
engineer and a designer of the Shen-
! andoah Under cross examination he
admitted he personally opposed the
! reduction OF safety valves in the Shen-
| andoah from 1S to 8, but declared this
| change was not responsible for the
| dirigible'S loss. He attributed the dis
aster to squall, whose acro-dynamic
| forces brought the ship in two. His
| own personal opinion on the construc-
| tion of q dirigible to Withstand such
a storm was that il could be built
The court recessed at noon until 3
| o'clock in order TO allow Mr.. Reid 10
| attend the opening session of Con
| eress. In requesting the recess, Mr..
| Reid said the Speaker had granted
him permission to return to the court.
Evening star., 1925-12-07
COLD WAVE FATAL.
Five Chicago Deaths Due Indirect
ly to Drop in Mercury.

CHICAGO, December N9.-Fivs
deaths in Chicago were attributed in
directly 10 the cold which affected the
entire Middle West, where snow. In
some places TO a depth OF several
inches, accompanied lowered tempera
lures.
A negro was found dead in railroad q
bunk car on Chicago's outskirts, and
four white men died in roomins
houses.
Relief for the Chicago area was
promised in weather forecasts.
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Other Recommendations.

Other tions include.
To authorize the charging of "a fee
for inquiries made for patrons con-
cerning registered. insured and collect
on-delivery mail.
To authorize the issuance of receipts
10 senders of ordinary mail of any
character, domestic or international,
and to fix fees therefor.
To authorize the imposition of de-
nurrage charges on undel1vered col
collect -on-delivery parcels.
To extend the collect-on-delivery
service and limits of indemnity to
Evening star., 1925-12-07
Burgess Is Heard.

A 2O-year old girl from Illinois has
been engaged TO teach fencing to one
of the National Guard regiments in
New York CITY
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FOES ARE POLITICAL CANCSTERS.
GOVERNOR FERGUSON DECLARES
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FALL AND O0HENY
MUST STAND TRIAL
IN BRIBERY CASES

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NAVY STRATEGIST
HOLDS MITCHELL'S
CONTENTION WRONG

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port made by Capt. ST. Clair STREET.,
leader of the New York to Nome,
Alaska, flight of 1919.
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CONGRESS BLAMED
FOR P. 0. DEFICIT
New Says S49,453,090 Loss
TraceabIe to Rate Raise
Failure.

Responsibility for the S49, 9,453, ,O9O 40
operating deficit of the Post Office
Department for the fiscal year ended
June 80 last, was laid at the door of
Congress today by Postmaster Gen
eraI New. who, in his annual report
10 President Coolidge, declared II his
recommendations for postal rates to
meet the large increase in salaries OF
postal employees had been followed
the loss would have been materially
reduced. AS the matter now stands,
he said, the rates voted by Congress
will provide revenues sufficient 10
meet less than half of the salary in
crease.
At the time of the passage of the
salary increase act the department
estimated ii would add an expendi-
ture of more than SOS 900 600 for the
fiscal year. said the report. The ad-
ditional amount paid on account of
these increases for the first six
months of the calendar year 1925
was $50. 297. .69006. and il Is estimated
that the amount which will have
been paid for the fiscal year 1925 be-
cause of these increases will be Sl0,-
$50 a
The Washington times., 1925-08-24
PR|SONER MUST
WAIT IN JAIL
FOR TRIAL
Application for Release on
Bail Denied o'connor by
Judge Mccoy

An application of James O'Connor
to be released from the District Jail
pending a retrial of the charge Of
murder against him, was denied
today by Chief Justice Mccoy, pre-
siding in Criminal Court No. /. As.
sistant District Attorney James j.
O'Leary informed the court that the
Government expected to call the
case for trial in October and that
it is only in rare cases that prison
ers charged with first degree muir
der have been released on bail in
this Jurisdiction. O'Connor. with
Vernon. Story. is indicted for run
ming down a man with an auto after
robbing him.
The court told David L. Riordan,
counsel for the accused. that he
might renew his application Octo-
Der Is il the case had not been
scheduled for re-trial. Riordan Of
fered affidavits of physicians to
the effect that his client is suffer
ing from tuberculosis and should
therefore be released. Mr.. O'Leary
submitted affidavits of Major Peake,
superintendent of the jail. and other
officials stating that O'Connor has
been removed to the sick bay at
the Jail and is being given a special
diet calculated to improve his con.
dnion
The Washington times., 1925-08-24
MANY To HONOR
FRANCIS OF
ASSIST
Preparations for Anniversary
PiIgrimages Already
Under Way
BY international News Service

ROME, Aug. "a. - AS next year
will be the great anniversary com.
memoration Of st. Francis of Assist
preparations are already on foot
for an elaborate series of observ.
ances, and pilgrims VINO have come
to Italy for the Holy Year are pay.
ing particular veneration to the
cult Of this favorire saint.
Every September, however. pill
grimages are made to Assist. at the
time of the day sacred in the calen.
dar to him. and this year very
large number Of devoted persons
have come from the remote parts
of the Abruzzi and below Rome
Some go on foot, some in carts
and still others in camions. Their
goal has been Perugia and Assist
and their observances are extremely
curious. At first they take their
stand in front Of the Cathedral OF
San Lorenzo, in the former city
where they sing hymns. Then at
run they mount the stairs and
throw themselves before the altar,
where they reverence the nuptial
ring which legend says was used
at the marriage of the Virgin.
From Perugia they have gone to
Assist and on last Saturday they
made what is called the "rotta," a
kind of frenzied race going around
the lower church of st. Francis.
During this run the pilgrims invoke
the saint and chant loudly.
The Washington times., 1925-08-24
WEARY OF WAITING,
OLD MAN KILLS SELF

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24.-Fred
erick Schlinn, eighty-one years old,
alone in the world and tired Of liv-
ing, seated himself by the window
of his second floor bedroom, placed
the barrel OF a revolver in his
mouth and pulled the trigger.
Neighbors, hearing the shot. called
the police and they went to the
room and found Schlinn Still seated
in his chair, but dead.
1.-THE way of the world is only for
the young" the old man told an
acquaintance earlier in the day.
1.-The aged can only sit and wait"
The Washington times., 1925-08-24
CAPPER FAVORS
WORLD COURT
ENTRY
Kansas Senator Predicts U.
S. Will Become Member
Next December

BERLIN. Aug. 24.-Prediction
that the United States will join the
world court next December was
made today by Senator Arthur Cap
per of Kansas, who has reached
the German capital in the course
Of his European tour.
After personal observations and
conversations with leading states
men in London, Paris and Berlin,
Senator Capper is convinced that
Europe recognizes the Importance
of making war more difficult and
peace enduring on the basis of
give and take.
''I believe Europe is getting
ready politically and psychological
ly to participate in new disarma-
ment conference when the United
States calls It," said Senator Cap
per. THE League of Nations has
contributed literally to this desire.
1.-THE United States will join the
world court the coming December.
The opposition has been confined
largely to the Borah-Johnson-L La
Toilette group. The majority of
the Republicans and Democrats
favor the proposal, and it will
carry easily unless filibuster is
started.
The key of the European situa-
ton, as see 1t, is the Dawes
plan. If it works, I believe things
will come out all right. If it fails,
things will go to smash, not only
in Germany but in England and
France as well"
The Washington times., 1925-08-24
BASEBALL WINS
WALES To
FAVOR
American Game Is Ousting
Cricket for PopuIarity>in
Some Parts.
BY CHARLES A. SMITH
international News Service

LIVERPOOL, Aug. 24.-Baseball,
for years practically unknown to all
but few Englishmen who had seen
the game played in Canada or the
United States, has received a sudden
flip in England. and is rapidly
gaining in popularity.
So enthusiastically have Liver.
pool, South Wales. and other cen.
tiers taken up Americas national
game, that cricket, that leisurely
game beloved by the Englishman.
is being ousted from public favor
in these parts.
English baseball fans are reiter-
ating what Americans have been
trying to tell Englishmen for years.
They admit that baseball is faster
and more exciting than cricket.
that an, undoubtable advantage OF
baseball Is that the spectator and
player do not have to wait for
three days for decision as they
do in cricket, and that the code of
rules is simpler and easier for the
layman to understand
Cardiff is the stronghold Of the
game at present, although amateur
baseball clubs are to be found in
practically every thickly populated
part Of South Wales. The prog
ress that baseball has made in
Cardiff is largely attributable to
the fact that during the world war
the United States had a large
depot there. There are now four
baseball leagues in the city, one OF
which is a Women'S league.
The games are usually played on
diamonds marked out in the public
parks, while a number Of the
cricket clubs have turned their
grounds into baseball parks, charg-
ing for admission. Indicative OF
the strong hold the game has OBJ
tanned on Cardiffians is the fact
that it is no uncommon thing for
crowds three and four thousand
strong to be at q game.
The Washington times., 1925-08-24
Turns FIapper At Y
To Win Herself
A Mate

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. a.
Mrs. Julia Eta Ferry, seventy
two, Cambridge widow, an
nouncing she is looking for a
husband, is taking into account
competition she will meet from
flappers, and so is making a
flapper of her herself.
She has bobbed' her hair and
equipped herself with "jazz gar
ters,' rolled stockings and youth
full silk dresses.
5 She wants a man near her
own age, but insists he must be
willing to dance, do the cab
arets, take in the movies and
be good sport generally.
The Washington times., 1925-08-24
BOYS SHOT Is CAUSE
or OLD MANS WOUNDS

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. pam
unidentified boy with an air rifle
played havoc in south Philadelphia
when he fired through an open
window, the shot striking and
breaking a bottle of wine that
stood on a table at the side of
Michel Lucianna.
Enraged at the loss Of the wine,
Lucianna shouldered his shotgun
and fired through the open window
at the fleeing boy. The charge,
however, struck Giovanni Muscuo1i
sixty-eight years old, of No. 1918
Ellsworth street, in the chest and
he is in Howard Hospital in seri-
Gus condition.
After taking the wounded man
TO the hospital, the police paid a
visit to Lucianna, who admitted
shooting through the window and
told of his bottle Of wine being
broken. A search of the premises
produced seven five-gallon cans of
booze" and Lucianna was arrested
on charges of assault and battery
and Illegal possession of liquor.
The Washington times., 1925-08-24
PILGRIMS FROM CHICAGO
ARE RECEIVED BY POPE

ROME, Aug. 24-Sixty holy year
pilgrims from Chicago were re.
ceived in audience by Pope Plus
today.
The Washington times., 1925-08-24
BARR|E'S NIECE.
WINS BEAUTY
PRIZE
Modern Cinderella Captures
Second Award in Smart
Set Competition

NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-Meet the
real Cinderella! She is sixteen, slim,
graceful. There is nothing of the
bobbed hair flapper about her, for
her golden curls hang down to her
waist. She seems to have stepped
from a fairy tale into the fierce
blaze of Broadway fame.
Today. when David w. Griffith,
acting in behalf of Smart Set"
Magazine, gave this enchanted girl
mother and smiled the joyous smile
of a child whose greatest dream has
come true.
Briefly, the story of this really
truly twentieth Century Cinderella is
this: Ruth, ever since she was
a tiny girl dancing to the music of
q hurdy- gurdy on the sidewalks of
Paterson, N. J., her birthplace, had
wanted to be dancer.
Ruth is a niece by marriage of
Sir James Barrie, the famous au-
thor, and the brilliant creator of
"a Kiss for Cinderella Maybe
the relationship to the great play
wright has something to do with
her stage ambitions. Her parents
took her across the continent sew
eral wears ago and a visit to Holly
wood served to strengthen her aim
to dance in the limelight's golden
circle.
While her career was opening
for her she read that Smart Set
Magazine had given over its GOV.
ers to faces of American girls and
was awarding prizes of $1,000 for
each photograph selected by the
Judges, who are: Lucia Parsons,
Howard Chandler Christy, Henry
Give, and the editor OF Smart Set.
A few weeks after she had
mailed in her photograph she re
ceiyed a telegram from Richard
Berlin, business manager of Smart
Set" requesting her to call at his
office. Mystified, she went. There
In the Smart Set" editorial rooms
Cinderella's pumpkin and mice
were changed into golden chariot
with fine .footmen. for Ruth was
told that she had been awarded the
second prize of $1,000 in "Smart
Set Magazines Cover Contest AND
that her picture would appear on
the October cover.
Ruth has not bought single
gown with her money. The entire
81 900 went into the bank, where
with the advice of mother and
daddy, she will spend it to advance
herself in her art.