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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
Today in Congress
Senate.

Senate.
The Senate went on with the
Wor f.ou"t with the probable.
ity that voting on reservations
would start today.
The agriculture committee con-
tinu't tarings on the Caraway
cotton bill.
Inquiry into local coal questions
Is to be resumed by the District
CO.. n'irtee -. afternoon
Senator Capper announced that
the District committee would take
up the two pending welfare bills
at Its weekly meeting tomorrow.
The House today continues con.
sideration Of the Haugen bill to
create a division of cooperative
marketing in the Department of
Agriculture.
Following the cooperative mar.
keting bill the House will take I'D
the agricultural appropriation bill.
Three subcommittee of the
House District committee held
hearings today. The subcommittee
on elective franchise conducted a
hearing on the Gasque bill. The
subcommittee on the judiciary
postponed for three weeks hear
ings on the bill to legalize boxing
in the National Capital and heard
testimony on the Zihlman and I'm.
derhill Zills for new luvan,le
court act. The subcommittee on
bathing pools, Fairgrounds and
parks continued its hearings on the
bill to enlarge the personnel and
powers Of the National Capital
Park Commission.
The civil service committee be-
gan consideration of series of
bills to bring presidential postmas-
tiers within the requirements of the
civil service law.
subcommittee Of the appropria-
tons committee continued hearings
on the Independent Offices, State
and Justice and DEFICIENCIES appro.
priation bills.
Admiral Moffett was the princi-
pal witness before the naval at
fairs committee in the hearing on
the Butler bill to replace the Shen-
andoah
Representatives Of organizations
Of railway employees appeared at
the hearing before the interstate
commerce committee on the bill to
abolish the Railroad Labor Board
and set up system for mediation
and Cancellation.
Hearings continued before the
committee on World War veter-
ans legislation.
Secretary Of War Davis and Gen.
Patrick were witnesses before the
military affairs committee.
The hearing was continued be-
fore the committee on mines and
mining on the bill to establish q
mine rescue station In Kentucky.
Representatives Of the State De-
partment were witnesses before
the immigration committee at the
hearing on the Perlman bill.
The WAYS and means committee
was in executive session on bills
on the calendar.
The public lands committee held
an executive session on bills on
the calendar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
MILLION STARVING
IN CHINESE STATE
Threats of Bandits and War
Parties Prevent Shipment
of Food From Cities.
By the Associated Press

HANKOW, China, January 26.-1t
Ia estimated that million persons out
of a population Of 60,000.000 are starv.
ing in the Province of Hupeh. In the
Province of Honan smaller proper
ton Of the populace Is in distress
There are plentiful supplies of food
stuffs in Honan. but owing to the tie
up of the railway because Of the mil
itary situation, they cannot be sent
into the stricken districts.
There is sufficient freight lying on
the 'sidings awaiting shipment to tax
the full capacity Of the railroad for six
months, but the militar.sts who are in
control OF the line are demanding $500
for each car they release, not includ-
ing the regular freight charges.
Another factor contributing to the
seriousness Of the situation is the pro-
hibition against the operation Of pow
er boats on the rivers of the interior.
Junks, fearing attacks from bandits,
are travelling together. Sometimes
there are from 40 to SO Of them in
flotilla.
The opinion is expressed by relief
workers here that foreign contribu-
lions are useless as long as the Of
ficlals refuse to aid in the distribu-
ton Of supplies.
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LIFEBOAT is SIGHTED.
Craft Believed One Attached to
Sunken Freighter.

NORFOLK, Va, January 26 OP.-
The American steamer Stephen r.
Jones. en- route from Boston to Nor
folk. reported by radio yesterday that
she had passed a lifeboat partly filled
with water about one mile northeast
of Winter Quarter Lightship. The
boat, the message said, apparently
was attached to submerged wreckage
as the location is the scene of the
sinking of the Norwegian steamer
Solvang Sunday night by the Amer
lean tanker Vacuum. 1t is believed
the boat is one of the crew of the for
mer ship had attempted to launch be-
fore their craft went down. Although
cleared of the davits, the boat appear
ed to be held by the hosting tackle
and Is acting as buoy over the
wreck. The Solvang sank within
10 minutes after the collision.
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LEWIS SEES PEACE
IN COAL DISPUTE
Optimism, However, Is Not
Shared by 0thers-Confer-
ences Open Today.
By the Associated Press.

PHILADELPHIA, January 26.-In
another effort to settle the anthracite
strike a conference of operators and
miners was called to meet at o'clock
today.
John l.. Lewis. president of the
United Mine Workers, at whose re-
quest the call was issued. said last
night that II the operators spokes-
men would waive their inSistence on
arbitration of wages the strike would
end 20 minutes after the meeting
opened 1t is the third attempt by
the two groups to adjust their diff
ferences.
"A new pressure of public opinion,
exerted within the last As hours, I am
certain" said Mr.. Lewis, will have
clarified the atmosphere for our ne
gotiations, and l will be surprised If
changed spirit does not prevail in
the joint conference"
Optimism Not General.
Others did not share the optimism
of the miners leader.
The operators made 1t plain before
giving their assent to a resumption
of negotiations that the peace plan
Of E. ]. Lynett, Scranton publisher,
was not acceptable to them. This
plan, accepted in principle by the
mine workers as a basis for negotia-
ions, apparently was the only one
ready for presentation to the joint
meeting.
The operators chief objections to
the Lynett proposals. which provide
for the immediate resumption of work
at the old wage scale, are that the
same wages continue in effect indefi.
nitely unless the miners agree to
change them.
Pinchot Bills Moving.
At Harrisburg measures backed by
Gov. Pinchot to make coal a public
utility and to permit State compacts
for regulation Of production and sales
have been assigned hearings by a
committee, which seemed to have
pigeonholed them.
A bill as to certificates for skilled
miners would allow the necessary
two years experience to be obtained
anywhere. The present law requires
that applicants must have worked
two years in the mines of Pennsyl-
vania.
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the Judge made any decision the
courtroom became crowded and or
ders were given the baliff to let no
more in. After deep reflection Judge
Macdonald stated that he would not
hear the case until today. So back
the girl was taken to the House of
Detension.
In Police Court today the prisoner
clad in Washington Winter clothes
pleaded not guilty and demanded a
jury trial Bond was fixed at $500
and the case was set for Friday
afternoon at o'clock. The girl could
not make bond Immediately and was
kept under the chaperonage of q
policewoman.
Through the Associated Press. Mr..
Kennison of 2ll0 Glenwood avenue,
Toledo, the address the girl gave, was
notified, but denied having a daugh-
ter in Washington. II have only one
daughter" he said. "She is only IL
years old and is with me-" Mr.. Ken
nison Is the vice president and trust
officer of the Ohio Savings Bank and
Trust Co. of Toledo.
In Police Court today the defendant
refused to make any further COM
ment except that she was Miss kenni-
son and that her father lived at 2110
GlenWood avenue, Toledo. She did say
that She did not want him notified.
The girls alleged sister, could not
be traced at the address given the Do
lice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
DEATH CLAIMS FLYER
IN MISSISSIPPI MORASS
Pilot Tramps Through Marsh, but
Fails to Save Life of His
Exhausted Helper.
BY the Associated Press.

by the AssOclateu fFesS-
NEW ORLEANS, January Go
Death and youth battled in the track
less marshes at the mouth of the
Mississippi River Sunday night and
death won by claiming Charles La
naux, jr., 81, aviation helper, who
froze to death in the marshes. He
died after his pilot. Henry Ransdell
had lurched through the morass for
more than an hour with the exhaust
ed youth on his back. The pair had
been forced down by an empty gaso-
line tank.
Lanaux and Ransdell were employ
ed by the New Orleans Air Line, en-
gagged in carrying United States mail
from New Orleans to Pilot Town and
return.
In spite of unfavorable weather con-
ditions the two youths went for test
flight, exhausting their fuel and being
forced down in the swamps after
nightfall.
RansdeIl finally reached a tele-
phone, although barely able to talk to
the officials of the New Orleans Air
Line of the tragedy. He returned to
the swamp with help to bring the
body of Lanaux to New Orleans The
body was expected here tonight
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THREE STEAMSHIPS
CRIPPLED IN STORM
At Least IL Liners Also Bat
ting in Atlantic With 5000
Passengers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 26.-Three
steamships were in distress today as
the result OF a storm in the Atlantic
Ocean. At least IL liners. including
the Leviathan and the Aquitania, were
battling toward port with nearly
5000 passengers aboard.
Most of the liners have been de-
layed from one to three days by the
storm which already has taken a toll
of three lives, and was responsible
In part for the sinking of one ship
The ships in distress were the Brit
fsh freighters Antinoe and Laristan
and an unidentified vessel near the
Panama Canal.
Two Sailors Lost.
When the liner President Roosevelt
launched a lifeboat 20 take off the
crew of the Antinoe. two sailors o.
the rescue crew were lost as the life
boat was crushed against the Antjnoe
The Norwegian freighter Solvang
sank off Delaware Braakwater Sun
day after a collision with the oil
tanker Vacuum and one man was
drowned In the heavy seas when the
crew Of 90 was transferred to the
tanker.
The President Roosevelt first went
to the aid of the Antinoe in Midat-
lantic Sunday. but lost the crippled
steamer in snowstorn. After yes
terday's rescue effort. the Antinoe
drifted he!plessly, with boats and
wireless gone and waves flooding the
holds. The President Roosevelt
stood by.
Had 90 Men Aboard.
The Antinoe had about 20 men
aboard. She left New York January
IA for Queenstown.
When the Laristan sent out an SOS
last night she was north Of the An
ttnoe. with the German steamship
Bremen racing to her side The Laris-
tan, which carries a crew Of %, left
swansea January 9 for New York
with a cargo of coal.
Her distress signals caused shut
down of radio broadcasting IN the East
for hours and 25 minutes. The
American programs OF the interna-
tional broadcasting tests We're silenced
in the Eas. for almost As minutes.
Identity of the vessel In distress off
the Panama Canal was sought TODAY.
She was first thought to be the Corvus.
en- route from Portland, Greg, to New
York, but 1t developed that the Corvus
is at San Francisco.
Liners in Storm.
Among the liners in the storm to-
day were the Caledonia. Columbus.
Duilio. Edison. France. Giuseppe Verdi
Lithuania. Montroyal, Regina, Tran
sylvania and Iceland
The Leviathan sent word that all
aboard were well. but that she was
making but knots an hour In ire
mendous seas. Among her 1922 pas
sengers are the Duchess Of Norfolk.
her daughter and Sophie Tucker, the
actress
Lady Isabel Howard. wife of Sir
Esme Howard. British Ambassador.
is aboard the Aquitania-
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Bridgeport Bank Fails.

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio. January 2S.-
The Dollar Savings Bank of Bridge
port was closed today by the Ohio
State Banking Department H. e.
Scott, examiner, said frozen assets
caused the department to order the
bank closed.
The bank, organized in 1891, had
total assets of $98S,708, according to
a statement published last week.
George H. Scheetz, postmaster. is
nyeSsAaut Of tha hank.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
OFFER AMERICANS CARS
HUGE DINNER SERVICE
Soviet to Sell 9OO-Piece Set of
Finest Rock Capitalization
of Value Is Bid.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LENINGRAD, Russia, January %.
who cannot afford to buy
any of the Russian imperial crown
jewels are to be given IN opportunity
by the Soviet government to purchase
the former cars stump uous 900-piece
dinner service, made of the finest rock
crystal. This superb dinner set was
used only when royalty were the
guests of the emperor and empress.
1t cost $4,000. but now is offered at
a fraction of tina. sum. The smallest
wine glass in this set Is valued at SIS.
The only bidders for the service SO
far are the Hermitage Gallery of Fine
Arts and the Soviet foreign office,
whose offers are not stated. The serv-
Ice Is so enormous tina. it requires six
capacious cupboards to accommo-
date it.
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JAIL $4,000 B00TLEGGERS.
Russian Authorities Seize 50, 900
Vodka Stills in Year.

KHARKOv. Russia. January &c
R)-Fines aggregating $3.50 900 were
imposed upon $4,000 Russian boot.
Ieggers in the Ukraine district dur
ing the year Just ended. More than
35 900 Illicit stills for making vodka
were confiscated. Despite the fact
the government now allows the manu-
facture and sale Of 40 per cent vodka,
the peasantry continue to make their
own home brew which costs about
one-half the price of government
made vodka. Alcoholism has in
creased at an alarming rate and the
government is taking drastic meas
ures to check 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
AMERICAN IS KILLED
BY JAPANESE MOB
Sailor Reported to Have Started
Trouble by Striking
Interpreter.
By the Associated Press-

TOXIC, January 26.-Dispatches to
the Japanese newspapers from Hako.
date report that an American seaman,
John Burnham, was attacked by a
Japanese mob on Sunday and died
from his injuries.
1t Is said that Burnham. a stoker on
the steamer West O'Rowa. which is
undergoing repairs at Hakodate after
having been disabled on her trip
across the Pacific. quarreled with an
interpreter, whom he struck. There
upon a mop attacked the American
with clubs.
The American consulate here has
not yet received a report on the kill
Ing: 1t Is understood the Hakodate
police have arrested several persons
who 1t Is alleged, took part in the at
tack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26

President, However, Plans to Stay
In Washington.

The President has received an I'M
usually large number of invitations
from various sections of the country
to visit them this Winter, but he has
been compelled to decline all of these
because he th;nks 1t s his duty to
remain il Washington to give his
attention to the Governments bust
ness.
He let 1t be known today that IL he
should find that it is convenient for
him to leave Washington any time
soon. he would go to Plymouth. VT,
to visit his father Col John C..
Coolidge, who has been i'll for the
last few months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
AMERICAN FALLS BLOCKED
Ice Jam Reduced Water to Few
Small Streams.

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, January
26 R).-The American Falls .vester.
day was almost a bare cliff when
great quantities of ice damned at
Port Day and shut of all water from
the falls except a few small streams
which trickied over the great preci.
pice. A strong west wind and the
present cold snap are said to be re-
sponsble for the jam. The wind has
been holding back the ice pack and
the cold weather has solidified it.,
forming almost a solid dam in the
upper river.
There Is also great quantity Of
ice below the falls and the ice bridge
y one OF the largest in yeara
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
GOLD PROVES ILLUSION,
Thousands Of Russians Flockine
Back From Siberia.

BLAGOVESTCHEN Eastern ST.
IBERIA. January 26 CP.-Another Rus
sian gold bubble" has burst. Twelve
thousand disappointed. disillusioned.
destitute Russians. who soughu riches
in the much-advertised Tommoto gold
fields in Siberia, streamed into Blago-
vestchensk with tales of hardship ard
suffering. They said that nothing but
marshes" were found where the
gold beds" were supposed to exist
They report that only single small
area, called 1.-The gold key" represents
any value.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
SPY SENTENCED TO DIE.
Russian Charged With Betraying
Revolutionary Orders.

IRKUTSK, Russia, January Is Cp).
-Sergius Siniavsky. a professional
spy. charged by the state with caus-
ing the death or betrayal of 135 revo-
lutionists, has been sentenced to
death. The prisoner, who served in
the czarist secret police for many
years. was held responsible for the be.
trayal Of the Yenisseisk Congress Of
Social Revolutionaries. certain Mos
COW revolutionary organizations, the
revolutionary Red Cross and his owr
lawyer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
COUNSEL BACKS BILL
Richberg Testifies Before House
Committe in Favor of Labor
Settlement Plan.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Donald K. Richberg, general counsel
for organized raj road employees. testi-
fed before the House commerce COM
mittee in favor of the Watson-Parker
bin ~ nrovide means OF settling rail
road labor issues. He previously had
testified before the Senate committee
ha wing jurisdiction over the question
Exclusion of electric railway sys-
TENS from provisions Of the measure
was asked by Charles L. Henry Of
Indianapolis. counsel of the American
Electric Railway Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
FIVE TEAMS ENTERED
IN THE PAS DOG DERBY
Annual Race in Manitoba to Be
Run Over Course of l2O
Miles.
BY the Associated Press.

THE PAS, Manitoba, January 90
Only five of the best teams in the
North Country were entered today for
the official opening Of the ninth an
nual The Pas Dog Derby.
The derby this year is scheduled to
be run 1870 miles, and will last three
days. One-third of the distance Is to
be covered each day, over a course on
the Saskatchewan River.
The entrants signed for the first
lap today are Billy Grayson, Earl
Bridges. Harry Olensky, Ross Mox-
Icy and Emil ST. Goddard, all Of The
Pas. -. -.
Shorty" Russick, former dsrby
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
GREAT QUAKE REGISTERED
Prague Seismograph Records Catas-
trophic Disturbance,

PRAGUE, CZechoslovakia, January
26 CED.-The seismograph instruments
at the Geophysical Institute, at ST
o'clock this morning, registered what
was termed catastrophe earth
quake" a great distance away. The
shocks continued for two and a half
hours,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26

winner, and regarded as a favorite
this year, failed to enter at the last
moment. 1t was announced that he
would participate in the derbies at
Quebec and at New Hampshire.
In previous years The Pas race has
been Q 2oo.milo nonstop a6AiS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
ROXY MAKES GIFT
OF GANG EXPENSES
viii Make No Effort to Get
$4,000 Asked to Pay for
Trip Here.

S. L. RothafeI Roxy) and his
Gang" will make no further efforts
to collect an expense account of
$4,000 incurred incident to the organi-
zation's appearance here January 8
and 10 for four concerts for the
benefit of Il projected hospital for
tuberculous children, the proceeds OF
which amounted to $4,000.
In fact, he will make the Washing
ton committee in charge of the benc-
fit movement a present" OF the en-
tire expense of the trip, which, he
says, amounted to $500, and which
he will bear and say nothing more
about it.
The radio entertainer today gave
this Information to The Star OYER
long distance telephone, after he had
been told that the Interested parties"
here in Washington stlll were dead
locked and no nearer a solution for
disbursing the $4,000 on deposit in
the American Security and Trust Co.
to local creditors, whose bills amount
to almost this sum.
Awaits Agreement.
Charles E. Howe, treasurer of the
bank and treasurer of the fund, has
refused to dishurse one cent to any
one until it has been clearly SHOWN
that an agreement satisfactory to
all has been reached.
Roxy's decision to abrogate verbal
agreement. which he says was en-
tered into with Mrs. John Allan
Dougherty, Washington chairman of
the National Sanatorium for Tubercu-
lous Children, Inc, to be located at
Albuquerque, \. Mex, and which
called for a sum of $4,000 to be paid
the Gang" was given on the spur of
the moment. Previously. in his con-
versation he declared he would not
withdraw his claim to the fund nor
the statement made in a letter to
Edwin L. Wilson, Washington attor
ney. that he would hold Mrs. Doug
herty personally responsible" for the
S., 900.
Rather uive Money.
"All right" he said, IN tell you
what I'll do. I'll withdraw my claim
and let the matter go at that. l don't
want my friends in Washington to
think that this thing was run con-
trary to schedule. We gave up an en-
gagement in Detroit to come down
there, but, seeing how it turned out
would rather have given the $500,
which 1t cost me, outright to the
children"
Both Mr.. Howe and Mr. Wilson had
declared prior to the Roxy decision
that II he would withdraw his claim
the Washington creditors would be
satisfied. 1t is understood this .ieci-
sion was arrived at following a con-
ference yesterday evening at the trust
company, which included Brig. Gen.
Lloyd NJ. Brett. L. :. A, retired, ma
tional president of the orga nization.
but a non-participant in the local
for funds: Mrs. May r.
Moran of Pittsburgh. Pa, executive
secretary. who came here from her
city yesterday to help stratghten out
the muddle. and several officers and
attorneys of the trust company.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26

Virginia, although listed as a South.
ern State, finds use for ESQ snow
plows In keeping clear its highway
system Of 4.500 miles.
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TWO ENJOYS SHIFTED.

II. p. Dodge Goes to Denmark and
J. D. Prince to Serbs.
H. PercivaI Dodge of Massachusetts,
was nomi ma ed today to be Minister to
Denmark and John Doneley Prince Of
New Jersey to be Minister to the
Kingdom OF the Serbs. Greats and
SloveneS.
Mr.. Dodge and Mr.. Prince are to
change posts. Prince L. now Minister
to Denmark and Dodge to Jugoslavta.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-26
BALLOU CONTROLS 5
ON SCHOOL BOARD,
PEYSER TESTIFIES

Continued from First Page.)
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D. c. COUPLE IS
HURT IN CAR

HAGERSToWN, Nd. July Is.
Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Bird, Of
1885 Seventh ST., Takoma Park.
d. c., are seriously injured in the
washington County Hospital here
today as the result of an accident
to their automobile last night near
Boonsboro as they were driving.
from Cumberland to Washington.
A heavy rain had made the state
Highway, on which the Washington
couple were driving; very danger.
Gus.
AS they were rounding death
curve" near Boonsboro, Bird lost
control OF his machine which pluns.
ed over an embankment and over
turned. Both were pinned under
the machine.
Passing motorists pulled the In
tured couple out and hurried them
to the hospital.
Bird is suffering from internal in
juries, decorations Of the jaw and
forehead, and Mrs. Bird has a
broken leg and elbow. They will
probably recover.