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, 1926-09-29
FRESHMAN CLASS AT
UNI BREAKS RECORD

The largest class in the history
of the University of Wyoming en-
tered the university during the re-
cent Freshman Week, which was
brought to a close on Monday, Sep
TENDER 18th, the day before the
registration of the upper classmen.
On the opening day of the special
week there were $50 as against
2S5 at the same time last fall. The
total Freshman enrolment at the
university last year came to 401,
an increase of 40 per cent over the
first days total, and should the
same rate of increase continue,
there will be more than 500 fresh
men at the State University during
the present scholastic yea
During Freshman week the first
year men and women were given
various tests and heard addresses
by members of the faculty and
others. Freshman were entertained
at a reception and banquet during
the week and attended special re-
ligious services Sunday morning.
Sunday afternoon and evening they
were guests of the various churches
of Laramie and also attended a
music recital by members of the
universities division of music.
, 1926-09-29
RESIGNS AS PRINCIPAL
OF HIGH SCHOOL TO BE
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE

A. M. Clark, of Gillette, Repub-
lican nominee for the office of sec
rotary of state, who is now touring
the state in the interest of the can
didacy of Mr.. Emerson and the en-
tire Republican ticket, has an
nounced that he has resigned as
principal of the Arvada high school.
Mr.. Clark has won an enviable rec
ord in educational circles by his
conduct of this school and others
with which he has formerly been
connected since coming to Wyoming
a quarter of a century ago, and he
is certain to live up to his high
standard of accomplishments in the
office of secretary of state.
, 1926-09-29
FIRE AT MORRISoN's

What might have been a serious
fire was nipped in the bud at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Nor
rison on Sunday morning, when a
faulty chimney permitted the roof
to catch fire. Someone turned in
the alarm as o as the blaze
started and the fire was extinguished
without the assistance of the fire
department This was very FORUM
ate, as the fire truck failed to func-
ton and the fire boys arrived at
the fire only after considerable diff
ficulty.
, 1926-09-29
MIR. AND MRS. MEL NUCKOLS
NOW ON THEIR WAY HOME

After a visit of several weeks in
the Cody community, their old
home, Mr.. and Mrs. Mel Nuckols
left last week for their home in
Columbia, Virginia. From Cody they
will visit a few days at Powell, go
ing from there to Missouri, where
Mr.. Nuckols has two brothers.
They will also stop over a few days
at st. Louis, and later visit rel
atives of Mrs. Nuckols in Ken
lucky. Before going home they
will take in the Sesqui-Centennial
at Philadelphia and stop over a
few days al Washington, d. G.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nuckols usually come
to Cody each year for a vacation
and visit with old friends, and de
clare they will be back again next
spring if at all possible.
, 1926-09-29
FINDS WHOOPING COUGH is
DEADLIER THAN DIPTHERIA

Diptheira, once the most dreadful
of children's diseases, has given way
to measles and whooping cough.
formerly considered minor and al
most inescapable affections of child
hood. according to figures on NOR
tality compiled by the Metropolitan
Life on its experience during May.
The death rate for that month for
measles was 1876 per 100000.
while that from whooping cough
was ITO.
, 1926-09-29

OoS,to1,foo
That was our nations fire loss
in 1925. according to the national
board of fire underwriters, the
country's authority on the subject.
$13,6S9,432! = that was the in
crease over 1924. The increase in
the annual fire loss since 1923 is
s403,759,969!
Who pays this tremendous an
nual tribute to destruction? Not
stroyed. Not only the families of
the 10000 persons who die in fires
every year. Every resident of the
country pays his share.
For this loss, exceeding. half a
billion dollars annually, is what
keeps insurance rates high. These
destructive fires-one dwelling house
burns in our country every four
minutes. day and night!-are what
makes it necessary for the tax
payers to maintain fire depart
ments. The national fire loss is a
national problem. For that reason
President Coolidge has set apart
this week for public instruction as
the causes of fires and means of
preventing them.
Just what this half-billion dollar
drain on our national wealth means
may be visualized this way. Uncle
Sam, in taxing the incomes of his
people, allows an exemption of $500
for every child. That is exempted,
presumably, because it is sufficient
to keep a child in school for a year.
On this basis it appears that the
money we waste by fires every year
would keep more than 1000, 600
children in school.
Yet we go on wasting it-for it
is waste, because it can be pre-
vented. Insurance experts, fire de-
partment officials and engineers
firmly state that rs per cent of the
fires that cause this tremendous
total loss are p~reventable.
How? By being careful with
matches, cigars and cigarettes? Ger
tainly; that would held. By keep
ing chimneys clean SO that they
will not throw burning embers upon
roofs. Surely, that's a wise pre-
caution. These measures-an mea-
sures of common sense carfulness
are necessary.
But caution alone won't save
your nation $562,751,466. What is
more needed is ~.precaution. The
reason why buildings burn is that
they are built so they will burn.
The fundamental way. to prevent
htrrnin1 Sc IN sshpi1d ca fhau
won't burn"
This doesn't necessarily mean
that the average home owner must
adopt expensive masonry construc-
lions to substitute the traditional
American wood-frame house. 1t
means to build wisely with wood
use wood but protect its most vul-
nerable points.
The development of modern build
ing materials has made this pos
sible at a cost no greater than that
of unprotected construction. For
example: A wood frame can be
sheathed with incombustable miner
al, in place of infiamable wood
sheathing. On the inside of the
frame a gypsum additionally rock
lath-can be used in place of tin
der-like wood lath. An artistic and
beautiful exterior finish can be put
on the house through the use of
colored stucco. Or brick or stone
may be used. The roof can be of
slate. asbestos, cement tile or other
fire-resisting material. Insulation
and fire stopping can be installed
in n operation between walls,
floors and over ceilings through the
use of dry-fll gypsum.
, 1926-09-29

The Grand canyon of the Vel
lowstone river, 1900 feet deep and
20 miles long, is considered Vel
lowstone parks finest Gene. The
soft rock walls of the canyon are
colored in pastel shades from deep
green through yellow to bright
orange.
, 1926-09-29
MONEY TO. BURN

This is the path to an a%ppreciable
reduction in our enormous annual
fire loss and protection for your
self and your family: FIRE-SAFE
CONSTRUCTION.
How much money have you to
burn?
, 1926-09-29

Gordon Harp, the Colorado Aggie
patrolman of the Northfork road,
as an offset for the truthful fiction
of his summe touristry, has been
hunting the past week with Ranger
Spencer. 1t is reported that one
ram lost its life.
, 1926-09-29

Whatever our defects may be in
the United States, we cannot be
accused of dividing things up.
When an American gets a big piece
of anything, he keeps it and adds
to it.
, 1926-09-29

Mother to young daughter: I'm
surprised at you reading such a
novel! If you read this stuff now.
what will you read when o are
age?"
, 1926-09-29

With Ranger McGrew the super
visor packed into the Clarks Fork
section or the 9th to attend a
special meeting of the Crandall
Livestock association.
, 1926-09-29

Ranger Thomas came into Cody
from his extensive sheep range for
a taste of city life and to attend
to certain legal angles in connec-
ton with the forest boundary.
, 1926-09-29

Ranger Peterman and Supervisor
Langworthy r on a fall roundup
in Boulder basin.
, 1926-09-29
FORESTRY FACTS AND
FICTION

Ranger McCord is re-stubbing the
Sunlight telephone line, which was
overtaxed by the weight of the Sun
light dude business the past sum-
mer.
, 1926-12-28
Chlorine Taab E1rtodes.

Nice, Dee. IA tank c'r talnlng
chemicals for the manufacture. ~ chIo'
rine exploded at Staab.1 k.lIag etgh-
teen persons and i%nj1riUg thirty.
, 1926-12-28
eaqllo WiU Supervise Gormany,

Genoa. Dec. 13.-An agreement has
been reached whereby irteraliieu control
of Germany will cease and supervision
under the League Of Nations will be-
gin.
Evening star., 1926-11-16
Utilities Body Bill Calls for z
Per Cent Rate Boost as
Penalty for Inaction.
REWARDS ARE. PROPOSED
FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION
Limited Bus Competition, Repeal of
Crossing Police and Cut in Paw
ing Levies Are offered.

The principal weapon to be used by
the Public Utilities Commission to
force the Washington traction com
panies to enter into voluntary
merger will be recommendation that
the gross-revenue tax on the car
riers be increased from 4 to per cent
1t was learned today when the COM
mission completed a tentative skeleton
lied draft of the merger bill which
Congress will be asked to enact at its
forthcoming session.
The proposed 2 per cent tax in
crease. accountants of the Utilities
Commission have figured. will draw
approximately 100000 additional each
year from the profits of the Capital
Fraction and Washington Railway and
Electric companies. This feature has
been embodied in the bill as the out
standing punitive measure which the
commission believes will have a de-
cided effect in Fastening the com
panies to agree to unified operation
No other measures for Furnishing the
companies for failing to merge have
yet been written into the bill. although
a number of others have been under
consideration. Chief among them were
provisions for the revocation of the
charters of the companies and un-
limited bus competition.
Carries Rewards for Merger.
The commission attaches have
framed the tentative bill along lines
outlined by Engineer Commissioner j..
Franklin Bell. chairman of the com
mission. In addition to a penalty for
failure to consolidate, the measure in
it's present form also carries several
rewards If a voluntary merger is ac-
complished These include an abso-
lutte guara ntee against unlimited bus
competition, repeal of the crossing po-
liceman tax, reduction in the raving
tax and modification Of the bridge
repair tax.
The bill will be considered by the
commission at an executive session
Thursday While several new features
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1926-11-16
ILLINOIS SHERIFF.
THREATENS GANG
Franklin County Officer
Warns Gunmen to Stay
Out of Section.
By the Associated Press.

BENTON. ILL.,, November to
Sheriff Henry Doris Of Franklin
County last night declared that he in
tends to stop armed gangsters coming
into the county ''if it becomes neces-
sary for me to deputize every able
bodied man in the county"
Il am not taking stocks with either
side" the sheriff asserted Il intend
to keep both Birger and his men as
we'll as the Sheltons and those affili-
ated with them out of this county as
far as Is humanity possible. ] have
given all deputies under me orders to
arrest men on either side who come
into this county armed.
When it becomes necessary for me
to name additional deputies to stop
gang strife in Franklin County those
commissions will be placed with men
Of the county and not with outsiders. y
The sheriff 8 declaration was made
In reply to a statement in southern
Illinois paper purporting to come
from the gang of Charles Birger. In
which it was charged that Doris had
given deputy commissions to members
Of the Shelton gang.
Evening star., 1926-11-16
SWOLLEN RIVERS
FLOOD MARYLAND
Bridges Down, Tracks Wash
ed Out, Traffic Halted.
Farmers Hardest Hit.
Special Dispatch to The Star

HAGERSTOW'N. Md. November
1e.-Torrential rains have caused
tributaries of the Potomac to overflow
and the Cumberland Valley is flooded
today. Bridges have been carried
away. tracks washed out, highways
made impa ssable. and wire service
crippled. The damage is expected to
exceed s500.0Oo. The flood area cen
ters in the valley south of here.
Rain began falling at about
o'clock last night, and at 2 o'clock
this morning there was a thunder
storm, accompanied by a cloudburst.
The rain did not stop until early this
afternoon
Train service on the Baltimore and
Ohio between Washington and Hag-
erstown was halted early today. when
several hundred feet of track were
washed away between Eakles Mill and
Weverton. A special relief train with
a crew of traCkmen was dispa tched
from Brunswick in an effort to repair
the damage and to prevent any fur
ther loss. Reports early this afternoon
were that there would probably be no
further damage and the workers were
hopeful OF clearing the line by to-
night. The Baltimore and Ohios main
line runs out of Washington to Wev-
erton. and there meets branch line
which goes to Hagerstown.
Highways Under Water.
Highways in this vicinity were
under five feet of water this morning
and were virtually impassab BILE. TRAFFIC
was practically resumed this after
noon. Several thousand telephones
throughout the valley were out Of
commission and the only communica
tion between here and Weverton this
morning was single telegraph wire.
Most of the damage is to crops. Re
Gently planted wheat and corn not yet
harvested have been ruined.
J. A. Miller. Government weather eX-
pert at keedysvile, reported that the
water this morning was higher than
at any time since the Johnstown flood
the level reached then. 1t was foot
and a half over the bridge at Antie-
tam, he reported.
Alexandria Street Caves In.
ALEXANDRIA. Va. November 1s
tSpeciaD.-Hoff's Run. at the head of
King street, through which flows a
part of the sewerage of the nearby
subdivisions. was up to its banks this
morning. King street on the south
side of the 1900 block had caved in for
depth of about five inches. The
rain abated later.
The trestle of the Washington Nir-
ginia Railway over Hoff' Run, over
which the electric cars go to Washing
ton. was threatened as a result Of the
heavy waters.
Evening star., 1926-11-16
100 HARVARD STUDENTS
RATED AS UNDESIRABLE"
First-Year Men Cut Glass Before
Foot Ball Game-Win Be
on Probation. -
Nv IN. Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. November Is.
One hundred first-year men at Har-
ward Law School who cut the last
class before the Brown game,
have been classed as "undesirables
by Dean Roscoe Pound. 1t was re-
vealed today.
The students were warned In let
ter from the dean that their future
work would he watched closely with a
threat of immediate expulsion should
their studies show any sign of lag
ging.
The letter with its disciplinary
warning was said to be an innovation
in customs of the Law School.
The Harvard Crimson. in an edf-
torial taking exception to the dean
action, condemns the policy as pater-
nalistic.
Evening star., 1926-11-16
FIRST TAX REBATE
DUE ON MARCH IS
White House Announces Plan
if Presidents Proposal
Becomes Law.

Ic lIlulN luudl tdA pay SAS III eAAO
Nation will receive their share or
the Treasury surplus which the
President proposes to turn back to
them when they pay their income
tax bills March Is and June Is next,
in the event the plan being fornu-
lated by the President is enacted
into law during the coming session
of Congress.
In making this known at the White
House today, the President indicated
that it is his intention to go ahead
with his proposal regardless OF
Democratic criticism and despite the
fact that members of his own party
have not expressed themselves en-
thusastically. The President gave
evidence that he is not at all dis
couraged and reiterated his belief
that this money should be given
back to the tax payers in the man
ner suggested by him instead of
through the medium of a revision OF
the present tax law.
While discussing the subject at
the White House today, the Presi-
dent said, through his spokesman,
that he realizes that there has been
some little confusion on the part OF
the public as a result of the use OF
so many different terms, such as re-
bates. refunds and credits and the
like. in describing the manner In
which the surplus Is to be turned
back.
Calls 1t Reduction.
II. c..e represented in this con-
nection as saying that regardless OF
the terms applied to the procedure,
1t is in his opinion a tax reduction.
pure and simple. He was repre-
sented further as saying that so far
as he personally Is concerned the
manner Of disposing of the surplus
can be called by any term, but there
Is no getting away from the fact that
1t is a tax reduction. He believes,
however, the public would have a
clearer understanding of the subject
If the term "reduction' Is used rather
any of the others.
The President stated. through his
spokesman. that his plan has not yet
taken on any definite form, but inti-
mated that he and those from whom
he is seeking counsel are pretty clear
in their own minds regarding the
working out of the entire proposition.
The President. however, will depend
upon the ways and means committee
of the House to put the proposal in
final form, inasmuch as all legislation
pertaining to the Nations revenues
must first arise in the House. and.
therefore, he considers it primarily
the duty of the ways and means com
mittee to handle this legislation and
to consider it from every angle before
presenting it to the House itself
Because of the knowledge members
Of the ways and means committee
have relative to all matters of gov
ernmental revenues. and because of
the facilities this committee has for
collecting information bearing upon
questions of revenue, the President
Continued on Page Z, Column 21
Evening star., 1926-11-16
HOLDS BIBLE AND SHOOTS
Disputant Over Mcpherson Story
Wounds ex-Policeman.

LOS ANGELES, November Is (P).
Holding a Bible in one hand and a
gun in the other, a man who had pro-
nounced ideas about the merits OF the
Aimee Semple Mcpherson story shot
and probably fatally wounded James
Mansfield. SO. former Boston police
man. officers learned yesterday.
The wounded man said he had met
his assailant and another man In a
mark and had been shot after having
engaged In an argument with them
over the case. He did not seek medi-
cal aid at once and blood poisoning
developed.
Evening star., 1926-11-16
STORM SWEEPS CITY.
AnacOstia River Overflows Banks;
Many Cars Stalled,

The wind and rain storm that swept
through Washington last night began
to leave this city behind shortly before
noon today. and by tonight will be far
out over the North Atlantic. accord
ing to the Weather Bureau.
Although the thermometer will take
decided drop from it's recent unsea-
sonable heights tonight, 1t is not ex-
pected to descend below 80 degrees.
and tomorrow will be fairly comfnr-
table. Forecaster Mitchell predicted a
slow decline. however. until the freez-
ing point is reached late Thursday or
early Friday. Tomorrow may be
cloudy. but no rain Is anticipated.
Last night storm was described as
a secondary disturbance. the wind
velocity at no time reaching 35 miles
an hour here. 1t is expected to de-
velop. however. into severe gales by
the time II reaches the Atlantic Ocean.
and storm warnings are displayed
north of the Delaware breakwater.
Swollen by rain. the northea st
Continued on Page .. Column -
Evening star., 1926-11-16
BUTLER TO RETAIN
POST Of CHAIRMAN
Defeated Senator Will Be
Actively in Charge of Re-
publican Campaign.
By G.. GOI'LD LINCOLN.

Senator William NJ. Butler of
Massachusetts, will continue as chair
man of the Republican national COM
mittee. Not only will he continue as
chairman, but he will play no per-
functory part in the shaping of Re
publican plans which will eliminate
in the campaign Of 1928. He will be
actively in charge of the national
organization. just as he has been in
the past.
Senator Butler. who under the law
will serve Massachusetts, In that
capacity until Senator.elect David l.
Walsh qualities In the open Senate
next month, is a guest Of President
Coolidge at the White House. Presi-
dent Coolidge, within few days after
The elections, made it clear that he
hoped Senator Butler would continue
as head Of the Republican national
committee. 1t was the Presidents
view that had Senator Butler been
elected to the Senate on November 2
he probably would have relinquished
the Craftsmanship in order to give his
full time and attention to his duties
as Senator, but that as he Is now re-
tiring from the Senate he will be in
a position to carry on" as head OF
the national organization.
Determination Not New.
The determination of Senator But
ler to continue as chairman Of the
committee. he said today, is not new
although he had planned. had he
been successful in the recent election.
to retire from that ONCE. A change
of chairman OF the national commit
tee at this time could only be upset
ting in measure. 1t would place
Charles D. Hilles of New York, the
vice chairman. at the head of the
committee until the committee could
be called together to elect new chair
man. But with Senator Butler con-
tinuing as chairman. there is no need
Of a meeting Of the committee until
December. 1927, when 1t will be the
duty of the committee to select the
Evening star., 1926-11-16
TWO SHOT TO DEATH
THROUGH WINDOW
Assassin Fires Into Group at
Night-Three Others Wounded
in South Dakota.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assocla ated Press.
SCOTLAND. S. D., November 1e,-
Two persons were shot to death and
three others We're wounded at the
John Gross farm, near here, last night
by a mysterious assassin, who fired
through a window with a shotgun.
The dead are Robert Zwiefel, Is, and
Mrs. John Gross. so, wife Of the owner
Of the farm.
The wounded are Clarence Zwiefel
Is. brother Of Robert; Emmanuel
Gross. Is, and Mrs. Solomon Gross,
80. Several other occupants Of the
room escaped the blast Of shot that
swept through the window just az
the party prepared to sit down to a
game Of cards.
The slayer fired four or five charges
from his shotgun without revealing
himself. Robert Zwiefel died at the
first shot and Mrs. Gross was killed
when she appeared at the door to
investigate.
No motive was known for the at
fack
Evening star., 1926-11-16
SUN WILL LEAD ATTACK
TO RECAPTURE KIUKIANG
Gen. WI Expected to Assist Move
Against Victorious Cantonese
Holding City.
Bv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, November 16.-Gen.
Sun Chuan-Fang, once ruler Of five
Eastern provinces and enemy of the
Cantonese. is concentrating Ave bri.
gades of his troops in an attempt to
recapture kiukiang, in northern
Kiangsi, his former base. which re-
Gently went into the hands of the
Southern armies.
This information was given out
here today by Suns local headquar.
ters. Gen. Sun has gone to the
Kiangsi front to personally direct the
operations. The headquarters an.
nouncement added that Gen. WI
Pei-fu probably would launch an at
tack on Kiukiang from northern and
western Hupeh Province simultane-
ously with Suns movement.
Evening star., 1926-11-16
NOTED MEXICAN REBEL
LEADER BOWS TO GALES
Gen. Gallegos Makes Unconditional
Submission Following Defeat
by Federals.
Bv thesAssociated Press

BY thesAssociated Press.
MEXICO CITY. November 16.-The
prominent rebel leader. former Gen.
Rodolfo Gallegos, who revolted with
$50 men several weeks ago at his
ranch near Celaya. has requested
President Gales to accept his uncon.
ditional submission following a defeat
inflicted on his forces by federal
troops in the State of Durango Octo.
Der 90.
FL Universal says that President
Gales has sent passport for Gale
gos. and has ordered the military
authorities to furnish him facilities
to come to Mexico City to appear be.
fore the authorities.
Evening star., 1926-11-16
FAMOUS BELLS STOLEN.
Santa Ysabel Mission in California
Suffers $40. 900 Loss.

SAN DIEGO. Calf. November Is
P-The famous bells Of the Sa
Ysabel Mission. valued at $4,000 and
cast of a gold alloy, which made them
noted for their beautiful tone. have
been stolen.
The theft was reported Yesterday
at Ramona. 20 miles from the mission,
by Indians of the Santa Ysabel Mis-.
sion. who regard the place as shrine
Several months ago fire ravaged
the mission. but the golden bells were
not harmed The mission was built
$50 years ago in the days of Father
Junipero. Franciscan priest.