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Evening star., 1926-04-07
STEPHENS REVIEWS
BRO0KHART DEBATE
Committee Minority Leader
First Speaker Today-De-
cision Delay Is Seen.

Senator stephens. Democrat, Of Mis-.
sissippi. defending the right of Sena-
tor Brookhart, Republican. of Iowa.
to retain his seat, was the first speaker
when the Senate resumed debate on
the Steck Brookhart contest today.
Senator stephens disagreed with
the ajority of the privileges and cleo
tions committee, which reported IN
favor of seating Daniel F. Steck. the
Democratic candidate. who contested
the election of Senator Brookhart. 1t
is the contention Of Senator Stephens
that the laws of Iowa relating to cleo
tions must he considered in passing
upon the disputed ballots in the
recount.
II Is probable that the debate Will
continue for several days before a
vote is reached.
Debate in the Senate yesterday after
noon on the contest narrowed down 10
a.uuestion of whether the issue should
he decided on .he election laws OF
Iowa or upon tho intent of the voters.
as determined by the privileges ana
elections committee.
Ernst Defends Course.
Senator Ernst. chairman Of the cleo
tions committee. defended the course
followed by the committee in allowing
counsel for both sides TO eliminate as
many undisputei votes AZ possible.
The only ether course. he said. was
for the committee itself TO have count
ed the ballots. and that he character
lied as an practicable and impos-
sible task
In anvwer to questions OF other
Senators. Chairman Ernst admitted
the committee did not follow the law
Of Iowa in passing on ballots. hut en-
dea avored to determine what the intent
of the voter was.
Senator Stephens fired the opening
gun for Senator Brookhart late in the
dav. He previously had filed minor
;ty report as a member OF the commit
tee, contending Senator Brookhart IL
entitled to his seat If the ballots are
viewed in the light Of the laws OF
Iowa.
The Senator from Mississippi said
he had received kilograms asking him
why he supported Senator Brookhart,
Republican. rather than Steck, a Dem
ocrat. Senator Stephens declared his
answer to such queries was that the
Senate is passing on a judicial, not
political. question, and that II is the
duty of Senators To do what they think
right without regard to politics.
Evening star., 1926-04-07

in Potomac Park, where the delegates
will assemble on the polo field.
Planes of the Army. the Navy and
the Marine Corps will participate In
what is expected TO be one of the most
interesting aerial exhibitions yet seen
in Washington. Some 40 planes will
participate. During the exhibition,
the United States Army Band will
play selections from Latin American n
composers. This air circus will be-
gin promptly at 4:3a O'Clock and the
public has been invited to attend it.
At 3 o'clock this evening the board
Of governors of the PanAmerican n
Union will receive the delegates at
the Union. and at $50 O'Clock Secre-
tary of State kellogg will call the
preliminary meeting to order. Be
sides Secretary Kellogg. addresses
will he delivered by Francisco Sa ncheZ
Latour. the Minister of Guatemala
Com missioner Cuno H. Rudolph. and
member of the delegation from
Latin America.
Following election of perma nent
chairman for the first PanAmerjcan
Journalistic Congress supper will be
served
Evening star., 1926-04-07
P|GMY SEARCHERS
LEAvEFOR GUINEA
Stirling Party, Equipped With
Plane, Sure of Success in
Unknown JungIes.

Ry the Associated Press
RATAVIA. Java. April THE ex-
redition headed by Prof Matthew w.
Stirling o. berkeley. Calf. sailed
this morning At 2 o'clock on the GOV
eminent steamer t'ormalhout for
Soura abaya To explore the unknown
Interior of Dutch New Guinea.
All the members of the expedition
are in good health and ready for
hardships, said Prof. Stirling just
before the steamer cast off.
Thankful for Assistance.
I'VE arc appreciative of the
splendid cooperation Of the Dutch
government and the Indies commit -
tee on scientific research and will
do all in our power to justify the
confidence they placed in our idea
of using an airplane for the first
time in New Guinea to reveal the
secrets of the unknown territory.
These have been kept sealed from
the world because of impossible
tains and the unhealthy conditions
prevailing.
Must Find Pigmies.
IF pigmy tribes are in New Guinea
we will find them" declared Stanley A.
Hedberg, historian Of the expedition.
pilot Hoyt. Mechanic Hamer and Re
serve Pilot and Photographed Peck
are sure our plane will not fail us and
that il will do all we expect.
The Dutch members of the party.
DR.. Van Leeuwen. biologist. and DR.,
LerouX. cartographer. also expressed
confidence They were most enthusi-
astic and declared that the expedition
would. not come back before 1t found
pigmes.
The crowd of friends Of the explorers
and high officials were present TO wit
ness the departure Of the Formalhout.
A regimental band played American
airs.
Evening star., 1926-04-07
CARNEGIE URGED LEAGUE,
WIDOW SAYS AT MEETING
She Tells Non-partissn Association
international Body Fulfills Late
Husbands Wish.
Nv the Associated Pres.


NEW YORK. April Mrs Andrew
carnegie feels that her husband was a
prophet and that the League of Ma
fions Is the fulillment Of his life's
work. She explained Yesterday to the
lseague Of Nations partisan AS
a"ciation. meeting at her home, that
she came to this conclusion after
visiting Geneva last Summer
Other speakers recalled the late iron
masters gift OF 81 500. 600 for The
Hague peace palace and other efforts
Tor international peace and harmony.
The meeting endorsed resolution
oHered in Congress by Representative
Emanuel Celler providing that the
nlted States pay its share Of ex-
penses for league meetings from which
II benefits or in which 1t shares.
Evening star., 1926-04-07
10 MOROS SHOT DOWN.
Consta bulary Kills Outlaws In
Lanao Province Fight.

MANILA. April G4).-A force of
constabularT yesterday killed ten
Moro outlaws and wounded a number
Of others in a fight in Lanao Province.
Ten constabulary soldiers were
wounded, two seriously.
The constabulary routed the Moros
capturing and destroying two forts
In which the outlaws have been tax
Ing refuge. defying the authorities. b
The constabulary forces had for
several days been endea voring to in.
duce the outlaws to surrender peace
fully, hut falling. stormed the Moro
fort. Outlaw bands have been killing
Christian F'ilipinos. and committing
dspredations in MANY districts,
Evening star., 1926-04-07
CHARLES H. HEITMULLER
DIES HERE AT AGE OF 88
Had Been Engaged in Truck Farm
ing for Many Years-Fu-
neral Tomorrow.

Charles H. Heitmuller. SIS years old
engaged in truck farming in Brook
land. D. c., for many years. died at
his home on Sargent road. Brook
land, yesterday. He had been in fail
ing health for several years.
Mr.. Heitmuller had lived at the
same address for the past 81 years.
He was a member of Trinity Lutheran
Church Of this city.
He Is survived by four sons. Paul.
William. John and Adolph Heitmul-
ler: three daughters. Mrs. Thomas
Miller. Mrs. L. w. Sakers and Mrs.
Claude r. Hunter: about 90 grand.
children and several great .gra nd
children.
Funeral services will he conducted
at the residence tomorrow afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. Interment will he in
Glenwood Cemetery.
Evening star., 1926-04-07
ASK ZONING CHANGE.
Residents of 18th Street Block
Want Commercial Status.

A petition signed by A majority NJ
the property owners on Thirteenth
street between NJ and streets. urs
ing that the zoning be changed from
residential to first commercial. was
presented to Engineer Commissioner
J. Franklin Bell today by committee
of the Mid-City Citizens Association
The committee was composed oi
.1oe High. chairman: Russell Thrasher
Michael Nahanev and A. i. Driscoll.
Evening star., 1926-04-07
BILLY" SUNDAY MAY RUN
FOR PRESIDENT AS "DRY"
Evangelist Says He will Make
Race If Both Big Parties Nom
mate "Wet" Candidates.

By the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI. Ohio. April THE
Rev. w. A. Billy Sunday. told
capacity audience at Music Hall here
last night that he would be candi-
date for President of the United States
If both major parties named wet
standard bearers.
"If they do that" he said. u m
going to run for President. My plat
form will he ITO hell with booze.
THE country is all right. said Mr.,
Sunday, alluding to sentiment con-
cerning prohibition. It's the cities
that are all wrong. and they are try
ing to run the country.
Evening star., 1926-04-07
CENTURY CLUB MEETING.

Joint meeting Of the Civic and
Education sections Of the twentieth
Century Club will be held at the Wom'
ems University Club at noon to-
morrow.
Representatives Zihlman of Mary
land and Mary Norton Of New Jer'
sew. DR.. Frank w. Ballou and Misses
Rose Hardy and Katherine Watkins
of the local school system, and Miss
Mary Schick. librarian at Walter
Reed Hospital, are on the list Of
speakers.
Evening star., 1926-04-07
MARCONl DENIES STORY.
Does Not Find Radio Boring. Noted
Inventor Says.

NEW YORK. April (P>.-Guglielmo
Marconi. in A wireless message, yes
terday denied the recent story from
London that he had become fed up
on radio.
The London dispatch reported that
while recuperating in hospital from
slight operation the wireless IN
yentor had become so bored by the
broadcast programs that he had called
for a phonograph. His message said
Entirely deny report. Have always
considered radio broadcasting' won
derfu development, which has come
to STAY.
Evening star., 1926-04-07
MRS. RODNEY TRUE DIES
Wife of Rotanist to Be Buried To-
morrov at Collington. Md.

Mrs. Katherine True. wife of DR..
Rodney H. True, formerly of the De-
partment of Agriculture and now
head professor of botany in the Uni
verstty of Pennsylvania, died at her
home in Philadelphia Monday. Funer-
al services will be conducted at the
home of Mai. Edward Dworak, at
HDlmeade Station. on the Washing
ton, Baltimore and Annapolis Rail
way, tomorrow afternoon at $3.50
o'clock. Interment Will he In Holy
Trinity Church Cemetery. Collington.
Md.
Mrs. Tr7ie is survived by her hus
hand and a son. Philip True, a student
In the university.
Evening star., 1926-04-07

been friends. and | am confident we
always will he friends. Our interests
and our prosperity are To great eX-
tent dependent upon each other and
must develop together. The Pan
American Union has been large fac
tor in the understa nding and friend
ship of our nations. Its efforts from
the beginning have been TO bring to
each nation clearer understa nding
of the viewpoint and opinions of the
people of it's neighbors. and its sue
cess is we'll exempified by the large
and friendly representation here to-
day.
THE newsra pers are the immediate
channel for the expression cf good
will and fellowship among nations.
and we know that you will take with
you on your return a feeling of friend
ship and sympathetic interest in our
individual and mutual problems which
will find its expression in message
to your people that will stimulate the
ever growing bond of friendship be
tween the Americas.
a similar welcome WAS repeated in
Portuguese for the benefit of those
visitors who were not familiar with
Spanish.
Welcomed IN Senate.
The delegates were then escorted
to the Senate chamber. where stu
another welcome awaited them. As
in the House. they were taken 10 a,
private gallery. Senator Hiram Bing-
ham OF Connecticut read an address
on behalf of the Senate. in which he,
TOO, pointed out that the journalists
OF the Americas. as the molders Of
public opinion. may do much 10 pre-
serve peace in the New World.
Senator Bingham said
I'VE welcome YOU as the great edu
Gators of public opinion on these con
tinents. On your efforts depends in
great part the reasing development
of close relations between the pan
American nations.
Permit me to voice the hope that
YOU will convey to your people the
cordial feeling existing in the United
States for your countries.
I'm greeting you we express the
wish that this visit will leave in your
minds most pleasant impressions OF
the United States, and that upon your
return you will he 10 your people elo-
uuent interpreters of the profound and
sincere desire of the people of the
United States to cultivate the closest
felat1OnS OF IFlenuS1tip dIb ''-oI'tin'
ton with the great nations OF the
South"
Proceed to Printing Office.
After making a thorough inspection
Of the Capitol. the. visitors again en-
tered their special cars and were
taken past Union Station to the Gov
ernment Printing ONCE. the largest
printjpS shop in the world. There
they were received by Public Printer
Carter and were entertained At lunch
con by the officers of the building.
after which they spent an hour see
ing the vast machinery the Govern
ment uses to turn ont its tons of
printed matter.
The remainder Of the afternoon will
be occupied with visit TO the Library
Of Congress. where sufficient time will
he allowed for a careful inspection of
the Interesting exhibit Of old Amer
ican publications. prepared especially
for them: view Of the Lincoln Me
mortal and finally An aerial exhibit
Evening star., 1926-04-07
Mother Dies. Missing Son Sought

Mrs. Helen Tilford, Sd years old, of
No. NJ street, died at Garfield Hos
pital yesterday. Today her neighbors
and friends are endeavoring to nnd
her son. Ross Tilford, said to be her
last surviving relative. who has not
been heard from in this city since
about September.
Funeral services will be conducted
at Hysong's Funeral Home. 1900 \
street. tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
o'clock.
Glasses. mirrors and windshields are
said TO become proof against Jogging
or steaming by rubbing them with
chemically treated paraffin.
Evening star., 1926-04-07
HAITI PRESIDENTS
TITLE QUESTIONED.
Race Congress Asked to
Start Probe of Borne's
Eligibility.

The appointment Of q special com
mittee TO investigate the eligibility
Of President Louis Borne Of Haiti
was urged at the opening session
this morning of the eleventh annual
meeting Of the National Race Con
gress of America, at the Mount Car
mel Baptist Church. Third and !
streets
Napoleon 7. Francis, deputy in
spector general Of Haiti. proposed
the resolution. stating that under
the provisions Of the Haitian consti-
tuition President Borne Is not eligi-
BILE to hold his office. as he is not a
native Of Haiti. Furthermore. Mr..
Francis continued. President Borne
Ia not the peoples choice, but he Is
able to remain in office through the
inactivity Of United States officials,
and the inherent power of his office.
Plea Made to United States.
Mr.. Francis also proposed resolu-
tions to the effect that the United
States Government recognize all de
cisIons Of the Haitian courts, that the
Marines stationed there be with
drawn as soon as feasible, and that
the United States refrain from In
terfering in Haitian affairs except 10
insure order and fair treatment at
the polls.
The present outlook in Liberia also
was discussed az the morning session
by Ernest Lyon. consul general Of
Liberia.
The report Of the president. DR.. W.
A. Jerna gin Of this city. was TO be
given this afternoon. DR.. Jernagin
in this report sets forth the treatment
the colored race has received and the
hest means Of securing better treat
mept in the future.
Urged to Vote &. o. r. Ticket.
All members are urged to vote the
Republjca n. ticket in the coming con.
gressional elections In an effort to in
sure the continued supremacy of that
PARTY in Congress. The workings of
the Federal Farm Loan Board and
the extent 10 which the colored farm
er Is benefited by this legislation also
will he discussed.
Discussions of the Gasque bill. the
election OF officers. committee reports
and other addresses will fill the pro
gram tomorrow. the final day of the
session.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-25
Gr0teSqne, If Not Worse

A good sense of humor is needed in this Muscle
Shoals business Especially it is needed when CON
sidering the congressional committee frantically
busy in Washington negotiating lease for the giant
Government power plant
This committee was appointed and is function
ing the brilliant theory that the people as whole
have neither the right ability to operate such
plant for and by themselves.
Here's the humor of it: There's not man on
lie power plants have been successfully operated for
years.
THE two Democratic members Senator Hefin
Of Alabama and Representative Quinn Of Missis-
sippi, come, in fact from States in which the pub
licly operated outnumber the privately operated
plants. In Alabama, according to McGraws Electri-
cal Directory, there are thirty publicly operated
plants, including one in Helms own home town. La
fayette. Alabama has only twenty-sX privately op-
Grated plants In Mississippi there are fftyone pub
licly operated and only forty privately operated
plants.
Senator Deneen committee chairman, lives in
Chicago. Chicago has had successful publicly
operated plant since 1887. 1t sells electricity for
cent or less a llowatt hour
In Kentucky, Senator Sacketts State, there are
twenty three publicly operated plants In Pennsyl-
vania Representative Morin's State there are forty
three. In Michigan, Representative James State,
there ninety-three
For such committee to lease away Muscle
Shoals built with the peoples money expressly for
public operation, is grotesque. And future genera
lions will a shorter and uger word.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-25

c.. II. Robertson, former Hoosier,
who has spent twenty-five years
in Y. NJ. c.. A work in China, told
an indianapolis audience Tuesday
that the Chinese of the educated
class view America kindly and toll
erantly, but they are skeptical of
our country and civilization. They
don't think the United States will
last.
The Chinese attitude, he says,
seems to be: I'VE have been watch
ing Western civilization for a long,
long time. Assyria and Babylon,
Nineveh and Tyre, Egypt, Rome
and Greece. Western civilizations
do not last, and why should the
United States be an exceptions"
From the Chinese standpoint
such skepticism may be justified.
China was flourishing nation in
a high stage of civilization when
Abraham moved out of Ur of the
Chaldees. To China, which has
endured while nations rose and
fell, the thousand years Imperial
Rome strutted the worlds stage
was but an incident.
Quite likely to the people of such
durable race the United States
asa nation, with its scant two cen
turtles Of history, is just a bolster
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-25
The Sport of Kings

Despite the fact that every State in the Union
has law against gambling several hundred millions
of dollars wagered every year on the outcome
Of horse racing.
What was once the sport of kings interests
a very large number Of American citizens in every
walk of life.
outcome of horse hidden hand books in prac
tically every city has been constructed. The race
track has a literature of its own, and the form
sheets studied much carefully than the
message of the President.
These millions of people bet their money every
day and still cling to the idea that they have a
chance to pick the winner through superior judg-
ment of horse flesh.
A number of very famous jockeys are being sus-
pended and will not ride this year Owners Of race
horses are being barred from the tracks The men
bling on horse racng-have discovered that during
the last year very large number of were
fixed" in advance Jockeys corrupted and
bribed so that the race not really at ALL
but parade.
That should be very interesting to those who
study form sheets and bet their money them.
Gambling, of course, is morally wrong. But
people will gamble but really likes to be
shown up a boob and sucker. That is exactly
for millions of people
If you really feel that you must gamble bet your
money something where you have a chance, such
the state of weather two weeks from today or
whether will still bob their hair in 1850.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-25
Probe This CHARGE

A member of Congress openly charges that
$4,000 worth of confscated whisky disappeared
from the custody of Federal officers in this city.
That is serious.
But the explanation of one of the Federal Of
icials is worse.
He says that when this whisky was seized and
brought here inventory was taken and that it
is now impossible for any to know whether $50
cases of the stuff is missing or not
Imagine police officers failing to count money
taken from man they arrest, and if he complains,
being told that they had not counted his cash and
therefore couldn't tell whether they had stolen
few bills not
If there be any practical method Of toss
ing the bill of rights into the discard than this, let
some one devise it.
For until the courts declared that the stuff seized
was illegally held, it belonged to the men from
whom it was taken and presumably legally
theirs
Such system lack of system is open in
vitation to every policeman, every sheriff and every
enforcement agent to go into the bootlegging bust
ness.
If there be any phase of prohibition enforcement
in which the AntiSaloon League and other dry adj
vocates should be interested it is in this remarkable
statement that rading officers and other officials
Place themselves beyond any necessity of account
ing for the liquors they seize.
Here is something that needs probing, and prob
ing to the very bottom.
If the courts expect to retain respect for their
decisions and actions they cannot afford to overlook
this situation.
If there was no check made of the gigantic
seizure of liquor and there is reason to believe
that there was, why it overlooked?
The prohibition inquiry of the Senate should in
qure into this. case if it does nothing else.
Or 90 we expect the prohibition agents to be-
come bootleggers and partners of bootleggers?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-25
HOLSTERS MOSTLY
ORDINARY FOLKS

DIR. Eide, director Of the bureau
of business research at Indiana
Univ ersity, points out III report
on Hoosier incomes that in TINS
State there is an exceptionally
even distribution of income among
the mass of people, and the aver
age per individual is neither eX-
tremely high nor extremely low.
Indianas total income last year,
including all classes of gainful &C
equations, from farmers to mag
mates, was approximately $1,1oO,-
100000. The State ranked elcV-
enth in the Union in point or in
come.
Yet in 1925 Indiana had only Isl
persons in the millionaire class.
New York City has more million
aires than that in the divorce
courts every day. If all incomes
above $4,000 in Indiana could be
divided among the entire populd-
ton OF the State, the average fac
tory wage Garner would only re-
ceive about per cent more year
than he does now.
All Of which indicates that the
State has few outragcously wealthy
citizens and little stark poverty.
1t is peopled by plain, ordinary
folks Most Of us Iloosiers can
support motor cars, Fords and
radio sets and live in comfort Hut
few of us can afford allinities, pose
as big butter-and-egs men, or in
dulge in ostentatious Injuries.
Strictly middle class. That's In
diana. We have farmers, not
peasants; RotariansS not probe
tariat; bungalows, not slums.
There is the source of 1ndiana's
economic strength. 1t is not the to-
tai or the statistical average, but
the actual distribution Of wealth
and income among all tn" people
of the State that is important.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-03-25
THE VERY IDEA
BY Hal Cochran

The wise man will not suggest
going to the movies, these days..
Moving pictures suggest hou y
cleaning.
The average man thinks that the
davenport is just something to fall
back on.
"The two OF u.s." friend hubby said,
Can live as cheap as one"
And then they found that living
cheap
Was anything bet fun.
If your youngsters start making
a lot of noise just when you're try
ing to hear what station is coming
over the radio-they're normal chill
dren.
Observation-Disclosures home late)
Can't you guess where I've been?
WIFE-Sure I can-but go ahead
and tell your story anyway.
Now know what makes the
wheels go round" soid father, as he
paid the gasoline bill.
When a man is too shy to get mar
ited--the only thing to do is step out
and earn more.