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Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1928-03-16
COMMITTEE TALK
BOULDER DAM
BILL ALL DAY
EFFORTS FOR STATES
AGREEMENT ARE BEING
MADE. TEN DAYS ARE
GIVEN
By Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Mar. IS The
Senate irrigation committee after
considering the Boulder Dam leg
islation all day adjourned at four
o'clock this afternoon to meet
again tomorrow morning at ten.
Considerable progress was made
in shaping the Johnson bill but
the principal amendments offered
by Senators Oddie and Pittman
for Nevada have as yet been
neither accepted nor rejected.
Efforts are still being made to
bring Arizona and California into
an agreement on the division Of
water and power amendments.
In the House Addison T. Smith,
Chairman Of the Irrigation Com
mittee, today presented the ia
vorable report on the Swing Bill
which was voted on by the COM
mittee six weeks ago. Douglas, of
Arizona, was allowed ten days to
present the minority report.
(By Universal Service)
WASHINGTON, Mar is The
House irrigation committee today
filed its report and recommended
speedy passage of the Swing-John-
son Bill for the construction of
the Boulder Dam. The warning
that the Colorado river may go on
a rampage any moment and en-
peril many lives in Imperial Valley
was embodied in the report.
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FATHER AGREES
To IS LIMIT
Nv International News Service

BRIDGEPORT. Conn, May 25.
With tears streaming from his eyes.
Edward Cromwell. 4" promised to-
day that he would not endanger the
life of his fragile wife by compelling
her to bear more children.
He was released from Jail yester-
day. where he was held on COM
plant OF his wife, Edith. who
wanted authorities to compel him to
stop making her bring children into
the world She has had Is, all but
five of whom died.
~ love children and I want plenty
of them" he said. "BuL everybody
seems to think that my wife is not
able to bear any more. I'm going
to take their advice and just work
to support my family from now on"
1--WE don't have enough food TO
keep us going" said Mrs. Crom,
well. But if Ed behaves himself
the way he says he will l think
we will get along all right. II he
sticks to it. III he happy with
him. Our only worry now is thai
he might have lost his job on
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LEW CHILD
EXPECTED
LAWYER
SAYS

Richard B. Woods. decribed rs
IN official Of the WinslOW Roller
anS Engineering CO. Inc. was or
maraa NV Justice Hikz, in Equity
EnmrA fnfHay. to- posi- bond Ok
600 to guarantee his remaining
within tie jurisdiction Of the
o1f9 pending the outcome OE
sI.ft filed BY his wife. Mrs.
3rersle Woods. maternity pa,
eieuf III Columbia hospital, To re.
strain him from abandoning ner
Rsa her mresent condition and to
compel him To pay her hospital
bills and provide Tor his, family
Richard ID Woods, described
al Official Of the Winslow
Boiler and Engineering Com
1Sany. Inc, was sued in Equity
Court today b his wife, Mrs.
Verda Woods, who is ma
aernity patient il Columbia
Hospital to RESTRAIN him
from abandoning her IN her
present condition and to COM
bel him to pay her hospital
bills and provide for his
family. "
The wife, who Is represented by
Attorney George B. Triplett, jr.,
tells the court that she married the
defendant August Is. 1925, and that
4I1a is soon to become mother.
Her condition is such that she has
been confined in the hospital for
some time.
ince she has been in the hospital,
she declared her husband has
caused her condition to become
worse. BY threatening to go to Chi
cago and obtain a divorce from her.
Recently. she ayers, he told her
that he would only be responsible
for her hospital bills for the cur
rent week and that he was going
to dismantle their apartment in the.
400 block Connecticut Ave. n. W..
where they had lived.
she has suffered a severe relapse.
her petition relates, because of her
husbands new threat.
He makes $4,000 a month in his
business, she claims, and asks the
court to compel him to paw the
bills and provide maintenance for
lis family, which is soon to be in
creased.
An order placing the husband
under bond to remain in the juris-
diction until he has made such pro.
visions is asked Of the court.
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DEAD RAY-PA|N7
GIRL s BONES
GL|STEN
BY International News Service

ORANGE. n. j., May 25.-The
pre-death statement Of Miss Eleanor
Eckcrt, of Essex Falls. will be used
as new evidence by the five girls
who, ii is claimed are doomed to an
early death as a result of radium
poisoning, in their suit against the
United States Radium Corporation
for $3.50, 900, 1t was reported today.
Miss Eckert. who died last Deem
Der. four days after making her
statement, worked at the same plant
where the five plaintiffs contracted
their tissue-consuming ailment. She
was "a at the time of her death. good
looking and a chum of the girls now
confronted with the same tragic end.
Bones GIisten i'm Dark
An autopsy upon her body showed
that she was so full of radium that
her bones fairly glistened in the
dark. She died in the Orthopedic
Hospital here, where other girls arc
under treatment at present for ra-
dunn poisoning.
In her statement Miss Eckert said
that she was employed at the United
States Radium Corporation plant
from 1916 to 1927. painting clock,
watch dials. etc. and that in Sep
tember a fall caused the scraping of
a bone. which resulted in the radium
activities in her system.
The girls statement was cor
roborated by physicians. who pointed
out that the radium poisoning in the
girls system only reached a climax
with the fall.
First Trial Called
Monday the case Of one of the
five girls, Grace Fryer, will be
brought to trial.
Miss Fryer has offered her body to
science after death. Her physician
said her days are numbered.
invest In the Used Car that best
suits your various Reeds-unlimIted OPP
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md a..
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ROU I IN [
REPORT
PASSED

After paralyzing the, 10th
Congress for "a hours by
blocking all legislation in the
Senate, a group Of filibuster-
ing Senators today relaxed
their battle long enough to
permit adoption of a confer
ence report on the 100000
900 Muscle Shoals project.
The vote was as to "a.
The report was sent to the House
where leaders predicted its early
doption.
A further break in the filibuster
came few minutes later when the
Boulder Dam bill was temporarily
sidetracked to permit consideration
of the conference report on the new
S223, 000,0 900 tax reduction bill. A
sharp fight ensued over the action
of the conferees dropping a pro.
vision calling for full publicity on
all tax returns.
90 Flood of OratOry
10 A ceaseless flood Of .oratory halted
all legislative, activity in the Senate
from early yesterday afternoon.
when the Senate finished overriding
Presidential vetoes, until shortly
after IL a. m. today.
Then Senator Mcclellan 3D. of
Tennessee. leading the fight against
the Muscle Shoals bill, announced
he would yield the floor. His eyes
were almost closed. his head sagged
wearily from want OF sleep and his
voice was husky from making two
speeches over a period of seven
hours.
"You can jam this bill down the
threats of the people OF Tennessee
by exhausting her representatives
here" said Mcclellan. But 1t isn't
just: it isn't fair. I am sure the
President of the United States will
disapprove this bill, or else would
speak until dropped"
McKellar's opposition was based
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Prof. William T. Richards. of the
chemistry department of the uni.
kersity, and Alfred Loomis. of the
LOOMS Laboratories, Tuxedo Park,
n. T., have collaborated in radio
experiments suggested by the mys-
terious fainting and sudden illness
of a man working about low wave
length radio apparatus recently in
the General Electric Laboratories in
Schenectady.
On investigation 1t was found that
all the men were suffering from
high fevers. Richards and LOOMS.
experimenting with wave lengths of
various frequencies. discovered that
radio waves had no heating effect
on q pure water or on concentra ted
salt solution, but heated to a high
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SHE RIES
DEATH
Times

Mrs. Ethel Hunter, 90, of
the 700 block of Park Rd.,
N. W., who is well known to
police through her frequent
attempts at suicide, was taken
to GaIlinger Hospital early to-
day after she tried to end her
life by taking poison.
1t was the fifth time in three years
she has been treated for poisoning.
Mrs. Hunters suicide obcession
generally seizes her while she is on
the street during the early morning
hours. At 2 a. m today she was
found at Eleventh Street and Column.
bia Road Northwest and was taken
to Garfield Hospital by police of the
Tenth Precinct.
She was later taken to Gallinger
after physicians found she had swal-
lowed a quantity of poison. Police
charged her with intoxication and
held her for mental observation"
after she was admitted to the
municipal institution
The first case oaa9record in which
Mrs. Hunter figured occurred about
three years ago. She was found in
a delirious condition on Fl Street
Northwest in front of tho George
Washington University Hospital.
Physicians there treated her for
poisoning.
On three other occasions police of
the Tenth Precinct have taken her to
hospitals after finding her on the
street. Once she was taken to a
hospital from the home of her
mother.
Mrs. Hunter is separated from
her husband.
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degree a diluted salt solution con.
tanning the same per cent of salt
as human blood.
The wave length was six meters.
Richards and Loomis learned that
the artificial fever which laid men
low was created by the heating Of
the salt solution in the blood.
They pointed out that bacoilli Of
many diseases, notably paresis, can.
not live at temperature which the
human body can stand. Conse.
quently there is some possibility
the scientists declare, of curing the
disease by inducing an artificial,
radio fever. These biological posi-
bilities are being investigated here
now by DIR. Robert V. Christie, of
the Rockefeller Institute.
The Washington times., 1928-05-25
PEGGY JOYCE To
MARRY NEW
COUNT
By international Sow servIee

LONDON. May 25.-The Evening
Standard printed a report today
that the much.married Peggy Hop
kins Joyce liz engaged to marry
Count Frederic De jane, former
husband of Alice Silyerthorne, OF
Chicago.
The newspaper published details
saying that the couple had met in
a Paris bookshop. !, Miss Joyce was
said to have picked up a. book writ
ten by De jane describing life in
kenya Colony. Afterward they
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FARM BILL VETO
To BE FOUGHT
Photo by International

At the insistence Of farm or
Sanizations, congressional bloc lead
ers today agreed to attempt the al
most hopeless task of enacting the
McNary. Haugen farm relief bill over
President Coolidge's veto.
Senator McNary R) of Oregon,
who has opposed the action as
futile. announced he would call
IN the Presidents veto message
"at the earliest possible Nmoment,
without interfering with the pending
legislation"
IT don't intend to allow the veto
To be used in the filibuster against
Boulder Dam. and Muscle Shoals. -
said McNary. The farm leaders
however. have insisted that we
carry our fight for farm relief
to a final conclusion. shall do
1t will require a two-thirds vote
by both House and Senate to enact
tlse bill over the veto. Adminlstra-
ton leaders predicted defeat.
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BANK STATEMENTS

Washington Clearing House,
$4.e15 ,6O6.06.
New York Clearing House bal
ance, $135, $1,000.
New York Clearing House ex-
changes, 81. 32l 100000.
Treasury balance, $84,941 ,3O7 .88.
Customs receipts, $3l $50, 494.96.
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frence report up in the House a.
any time for final approval as soon
as the Senate has acted.
Depends On Filibuster
But, according to the rules the
Senate must accept the conference
report first. Everything, therefore.
Continued on Page .. Column 81
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Tests Presage Disease
Cure By Radio
BY International News Service

PRINCETON, N. j., May 25-Scientific experiments now
being conducted Princeton University laboratories here
by which high fevers arcaly induced in human bodies
by means of short length radio waves may result in
for skin and other diseases it today.
The Washington times., 1928-05-25
PANAMA LOAN OFF

PANAMA CITY. May 25.-Nego.
Nations of the Panama republic for
a loan in New York have broken
down. The government sought ap-
proximately 5000 900.
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Passage of the bin Is now a
mere formality as everyone has
agreed to it as it now stands and
it's final enactment depends only
on when the conferees can get an
to present it to their
houses.
Representative Frederick r. Lehl.
bach OF New Jersey, head of the
House conferees can bring the con.
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Pay Bill Awaits End
OF FiLibuSter

Final enactment of the much amended Federal pay raise
bill may be delayed today by the Senate fbuster against
Muscle Shoals, although both houses ready it
and President Coolidge has indicated that he will sign
The Washington times., 1928-05-25

ROME, May 2J.-Shrouded
in a crust of ice and hampered
by strong head-winds from the
south and murky fog, the
dirigible Italia pushed forward
steadily towards its base at
Kings Bay today and was ex-
pected to reach there at noon,
advices from the Spitzbergen
outpost stated.
Gen. Umberto Mobile, commander
of the airship which made history
yesterday by cruising over the
North Pole for nearly two hours.
indicated by wireless that although
he was waging a grim battle
against the elements on his return
flight. all was well.
Because of the haavv head.winds
the Italia's speed Is believed to
have been reduced to less than 40
miles an hour
TO gain better visibility and keep
the ice formation on the dirigible
down to a roinimum. GenerI Mobile
was flying under low-lying fog
banks at a height of between $50
and 900 feet he stated by wireless.
All Italy rejoiced today over
Mobiles feat in reaching the North
Pole for the second time. His
messages to the Pope and Premier
MuSsolini telling that he had
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LONDON, May 25.-Anxiety
over the progress Of the Italian
polar balloon Italia was dispelIed
this afternoon when the following
Central News dispatch was re-
ceiyed from Kings Bay, Spitz.
bergen:
Gen. UnIbert0 Mobile, head of
the expedition, sent a radiOgram
from the Italia that heavy head
winds and an ice coating upon
the balloons envelope had delayed
progress hut that the dirigible Is
now flying strongly. General
Mobile said he expected to reach
Kings Bay between 4 and 5
o'clock this afternoon.
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pOrtunltles are presented in tOday's
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Modest i'm Victory's Hour

from a leper. That is typical Hoover
trait In the hour of victory. If one
would have the President-elect with
draw into the shell of reserve SO popu-
larly attributed to him. just start prais-
ing him or applauding him for some
thing he has done More than likely
he Will turn away almost rudely, a flush
OF displeasure rather than of pride upon
his face.
That shell of apparent GOODNESS so
often referred to by those who have met
him casually is really nothing more than
an almost childish bashfuluess before
strangers. He has overcome this shv-
ness to an astonishing degree as a re-
SUIT OF his appearance before camuaipn
thrones during the past few months
He has become almost at home before
the microphone, and he found himself
for the first time in his life ENJOYING
crowds and the hub -bub CT the cam
paign
Soon he will have new problems tn
master, problems Of state. affecting a
Nation of prosperous people. He will
enter upon them unintoxicated by the
spell OF victory-shunning the laureIs
That go to him who conquers
In this hour, he has told the Ameri-
can people. there can be for him mo
feeling OF victory or exultation."
Rather. there fingers in his .trobhing
Quaker breast onlMa prayer that he may
be enabled to keen the faith.
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with achievements Is contrary to the
fact.
There was a moist film on his eyes
and a lump in his throat as the cheers
of his loyal friends rang out around him.
There was a husky catch To his voice
as he thanked old college chums for
their congratulations and clasped the
hands of other friends who had stood
by him with that we'll known magnetlzed
brand Of devotion.
He was stunned at the realization
that he soon must take upon his Shout
ders the burdens of administration OF
the greatest Government IN the world.
He had been so wrapped up in the bust
ness of keeping his campaign organlza-
ton functioning properly that he had
found little time to muse upon the
vastness of the undertaking to which he
was aspiring.
Hoover stood at the threshold of vic
tory in a spirit of genuine humility and
gratitude There was not suggestion
Of ego In his attitude. There is none in
his entire makeup He was humble In
contemplation of the solemn trust i'm
posed upon him by the Nation, which
had given rein to the "unbounded hope"
in the breast of the Iowa Quaker orphan.
He was eager to give his thanks to
those who had served him SO well, but
hs shrunk from self-acclatm as though
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national Group" Just what Mr.. Phillips
means by these terms he explains In
his recent publication, with which in
hand the showing takes on new mean
ing.
In his essay on Art is Syrnbolical"
he gives a very remarkable survey of
the whole story of art in compact
form and from distinctly new angle
of vision. N"For many thousands of
years" he tells us, the expression in
art is collective rather than individual
symbolism; that collective symbolism
is the esthetic language we may ex-
pect to find in periods when the artists
have never even thought of expressing
themselves as individuals, but only as
believers in a faith" Shortly after
Giotto art ceased to be a ceremonial
of the faith and became culture of
the senses of all the people"
Later, Mr.. Phillips finds in Ell Greco
"a cosmic mysticism which makes a
mighty stimulus to technical innova-
ton" Just what he means by this
he makes plain by using as an example
be a symbol of the soul illumined
with divine light, but tortured with the
burning of an earth-bound mind"
Gradually there has been emergence
from the collective until now there is
IAN individual concept which," Mr.. Phil
lips declares, is 1.-The glory of modern
esthetic expression, sure to command
even more respect and to spread the
splendor perhaps from the few to the
many when art is no longer conceived
in terms of race or nation or technical
mechanism, but of universal language
of creative symbolism able to break
down the barriers which divide and
harass humanity EXemplifying this
upward movement in art, Mr.. Phillips
discusses Daumier, Ryder. Cezanne,
Van Gogh. Bourdelle, Davies, Tack.
Marin, Kent. Sterne and others whose
works are on view, characterizing each
most brilliantly.
The second essay, cart Is Interna-
tional." is built around the group in
the main gallery. and, while less subtle
than the former, is fully as thought
provoking and significant. In this
Mr. Phillips expresses his own ma
tionalism and reaff1rms his belief In art
as a common language leading to bet
ter international understanding. urging
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only lately been received at the gallery
and placed on exhibition. The subject
of this work was found, undoubtedly
in the Canadian Rockies. High NOUN
tains surround a placid lake and from
behind a great boulder to the left the
chiefs quantity carved and picturesque
canoe emerges. Here too, is subject
of interest, but likewise one il which
beauty and power of nature dominate
through sympathetic Interpretation.
y X
THE fact that the director of our
National Galley of Art is not only
an administrator, but an accomplished
artist is matter for congratulation,
and that he has been persuaded to
place on exhibition in one of the small
er galleries at present his charming
painting of group of "Wanderiusters'
resting under great tree by little
stream is gratifying. This is one of
Mr. Holmes most successful works, a
beautiful rendition of the outdoor world
in sunshine and shadow. with the
happy note of human interest skillfully
and delightfully."- introduced.
X x y
THE National Gallery of Art has an
interesting program for the coming
season. Early in the year, under the
National Gallerys auspices, there will
be assembled and shown a representa-
tive exhibition of the works of Edward
G.. Malbone, one of the greatest of our
American miniature painters. and a
painter of portraits in Oil of very con-
siderable distinction. Malbone was bern
in Newport, r. l.. in 1777. but in 1900
went to Charleston, S. c.. and remained
there almost to the time of his death,
seven years later. His self-portrait is
one of the treasures of the Corcoran
Gallery's permanent collection. owner
ship of miniature by Malone in the
South is, as the ownership of portrait
in oils by Copley in the North, badge
of aristocracy. This exhibition, which
will consist of loans from private indi-
viduals and public museums, will, it is
constitute the most COM
prehensive exhibit of his work so far
assembled.
There is also the prospect that before
The end of the season a notable exhibit
ton of paintings by Russian artists,
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an extension of our international ex-
changes in this field.
In conclusion he dwells briefly on
the two important acquisitions, The
Palm" by Bonnard and the Self
Portrait" by. Cezanne. stating in no I'M
certain terms their attraction for him
personally and his own estimate of
their merit.
The purpose of these pamphlets
which Mr. Phillips prepares with such
great care and studious attention is to
add to the educational value of the
exhibits which are set forth, to slim
ulate thought and appreciation: to
create, on the whole. better under
standing of the purposes underlying
the selection of exhibits. They are
a valuable adjunct.
THE Yorke Gallery, 1000 S street,
will reopen tomorrow with II ex-
hibition of paintings by British err
fist, w B. E. Rankin, and of pencil
drawings of Princeton and Harvard
Universities by Miss Marian Lane OF
this city.
Mr.. Rankin is vice president of the
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English Work on Pisa
''Humiliates'' Italians

Pisa's leaning tower. concerning
whose stability both natives and tour
lists have speculated for generations. has
become a kind of international prob
lem. After examining innumerable
proposals for hating the inclinations
OF the stored tower the italian minis
ter of public instruction accepted the
offer of well known English firm of
contractors to make certain repairs at
the base. The company at its own
expense brought materials, machinery
and experts to Pisa and prepared to
begin operations. To the establishment
of all concerned the Fascist syndicate
Of engineers of the province of Pisa
saw in this English enterprise IAN I'M
deserved humiliation for italian engi-
neers and architects and a material
and moral injury to national industry"
The offended Italian engineers passed
resolutions demanding that the in
truding English be dismissed and the
work put IN charge of italian firms
with Italian experts and engineers,
partly as vindication of their profess
sional ability and partly to safeguard
the national pride and dignity. The
Pisa engineers enlisted the press IN
their campaign against the English firm,
expecting to force the government to
cancel the contract.