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Elmlra Gazette, Founded 1828. Evening Star. Founded 1888. Buder Proves Relentless In Drive Agaiimst Law-Bireakeirs Rule Which Loegworth Wins His Fight For Prefer eimce On Tax Measure, Her Divorce Decree Rescinded Draft Of Home Rule Bill Has Legislative Attention As Solons Enjoy Recess Ask Committee Report Tax Bill BASSET! FAILS TO MAKE PEACE WITHHIS WIFE Quits His Job With Woman Novelist Because of Publicity Attending Her Divorce Action Wife Refuses to See Him. thsTi InMon Home Rule Commission Engaged on Important Task in New York City Declare Question Has Be-.

come "Football of -jl -vv- -S-33 COLLEGE GIRL IS LAMBASTED AND DEFENDED i Cornell Proctor Believes Problem Has Been Largely Solved at. Ithaca The Younger Generation Needs Good Example of Elders. (Special to The Star-Gazette) New York, Jan. 11. The modern college girl has just received the worst lambasting of her career and the question before the country's educators resolves itself Into this: "Are the college campuses today infested by 'an army of hard-drinking, clgaret-smoking, licentious Amazons' Dr.

Charles J. Smith, president of Roanoke College, Roanoke, says they are. Theodore H. Tweston, prootor of Cornell University, where co-education holds sway, says they are not. Dr.

Smith says entirely too many college girls carry liquor in their handbags; too- many of them dance voluptuously in the hope that will induce many boys to "break in" on them and thus demonstrate their popularity. There are too many dance intermissions for drinking purposes; and too often the evening concludes with a "violent" petting party in the luxurious retreat of a fine limousine. In fact, according to Dr. Smith, the modern college girl goes about with entirely too few clothes and entirely too much paint. dancing and social Impurity are the -three thins which (Continued on Page Thirteen) LENT LOSES POSITION AS BUREAU MANAGER New York, Jan.

11. -W. F. Lent, district manager of the Veterans' Bureau Office in New York, has been relieved by Director Hines pending a complete investigation of charges that liquor parties had been held in the district office there and that- the liquor was carried to a dinner at a hotel in a' veterans' bureau ambulance. Edward Olmstead, who was associated with John F.

O'Ryan In the investigation of the veterans' bureau by a Senate committee, has been sent to New York as acting district manager. Mr. Lent will not be removed from the service, however, pending the investigation. BEGIN TRAINING IN MARCH. New York, Jan.

11. Players of the Brooklyn National League baseball club were instructed to report for training March 14 at Clear-water, in letters accompanying new contracts mailed today. Nina Putnam Sanderson fears she will "lose her public" as a of the difficulty which has attended her divorce action. After a decree, the court later rescinded the order when alleged Irregularities were shown. She is here shown wit her son.

Butler Says He is Satisfied With Result in Philadelphia; Council Votes Rise in Pay ime SNOW IMPORTED FOR SKWUMPER Train 'Rushes Cars of "the Beautiful" From Adiron-dacks to Metropolis To Furnish Thrill. Briarcliffe Manor, N. Jan. 11. In thirty motor trucks, workmen today began hauling 15.000 cubic feet of snow to Briarcliffe Lodge, over ascending two-mile road from the Scarborough station of the Central Raliroad, where it arrived yesterday in six gondola cars from Thendara, a little lumber town in the Adirondaks.

Delivery of the snow at the club will complete one of the most spectacular efforts ever made to supply the New York City public with thrills. It was shipped from Thendara to make a ski-jumping slide and landing platform for the American Olympic skiing team at its public exhibition Sunday before sailing to compete in the Olympiad In France. The proceeds will help finance the team's trip abroad. When arrangements Were made for the exhibition it was anticipated there would be snow on the ground here, but to guard against arrangements were made with the railroad to supply snow. if none fell Wednesday.

The railroad queried all its mountain stations and a four-inch fall was located at Thendara, 288 miles from here. There 55 of the 200 persons who comprise the village loaded it in the cars and a special engine rushed it here at passenger train speed. The team is expected to arrive today from Minneapolis to supervise construction of the ski-jump. Rockefeller's Son-in-Law Given Army Appointment Philadelphia, Jan. 11.

E. Parma-lee Prentice, son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, has been appointed to the judge advocate general's department of the army, the New York Tribune says today. The fact was veirfied by Miss Mary Adeline Prentice, a daughter, the newspaper adds. Miss Prentice said her father had accepted the appointment and would move to Fort Penning, sometime in February, to take up his duties.

ICE SURROUNDS SWEDEN. Stockholm. Jan. 11. weden is surrounded by an impenetrable ice barrier.

Eleven steamers are drifting in the floes off Gothenberg, where the ice is especially menacing to navigation. The Baltic Sea is quite frozen. Two steamers are imprisoned in the ice near Gefie on the Gulf of Bothnia. LOSES HUSBAND, ASKS BIG SUM Wife Declares Her Troubles Began When Ballou Engaged as Chauffeur For Wealthy Widow. Ballston Spa, N.

Jan. 11. Mrs. Ernest Ballou, wno is bringing suit for $50,000 damages against Mrs. Leland Sterry, widow of the Saratoga Springs and Palm Beach, hotel proprietor, charging alienation of her husband's affections, was to return to the stand when Supreme Court resumed sessions here today.

Mrs. Ballou, one of the principal witnesses, yesterday described the change wrought in her husband's life after he entered the Sterry employ. Mrs. Ballou testified yesterday her husband never drank or smoked and "always came home," until May, 1922, when his habits changed and he began "staying out late." She, found pajamas In the Sterry garage, she said'; scented Mrs. Sterry'a perfume on his clothing and heard him, awake and asleep, talk of "hia Sterry." To add to her woes, Mrs.

Ballou went on, her husband became lax in. the matter of supporting his and when she wrote him notes to call the laxity to his attention; Mrs. Sterry telephoned her to stop "Interfering with my chauffeur." ASHLEY CAUGHT IN EVERGLADES West Palm. Beach, Jan. 11.

(Associated Press) Bill Ashley, one of the leaders of the Ashley band of outlaws, was captured in the Florida Everglades near Gomez Station early today, according to report received here early today by the sheriff's office. The apprehension of his brother, John, was expected to follow as they were known to have been together. TRAIN GOES IXTO DITCH Hunttvllle, Jan. 11. Six cars were derailed and ten persons slightly hurt early the Memphis Special, eastbound on the Southern Railway route from Memphis to New York, went into the ditch a mile east of Chase, Ala.

is held responsible for the maintenance of hljjh freight rates and many a member of Congress was compelled in the 1922 elections to defend his vote on that act. Men who were elected on such a platform (Continued on Page Twenty-one) Conference Decides to Give Bonus Matter Second Place, but Refuses Pledge to Pass Either Tax or Bonus Measures at This Session of Congress. Washington, Jan. 11. Instructions have been given the House Wavs and Means Committee to report the tax bill on or before February 11.

After that date it is to take up soldiers' bonus legislation to determine whether an adjusted compensation bill should be reported. This program was decided upon last night at a conference of House Republicans, who refused, however, to pledge themselves to the passage at this session of Congrss of either tax or bonus legislation. Representative Longworth, the party leader, with others who believed taxation should have right of way, checked the faction advocating bonus action at every turn. At the outset of the meetings, which were behind closed doors, Mr. Lngworth proposed that the Ways and Means Committee be instructed to continue consideration of the tux bill "to the exclusion of all other general legislative propositions, with a view to making a report by February 11, after which time It should proceed to consideration of bonus legislation.

Two amendments were offered to the Longworth resolution. and both were rejected. Representative Fairchild of New Tork proposed a stipulation that a bonus bill be reported "as soon as possible." This proposal was rejected, 100 to S7. The other amendment, offered by Representative Fish, of New Tork, a war veteran, fixed February 25 as the latest date for a report on bonus legislation. On a roll call the amendment lost 109 to fr7.

The Longworth resolution then was adopted by viva voce vote, but the soldier bloc made one more effort to insure favorable action on the bonus. Mr. Fish proposed that the conference record itself in favor of enactment at this session of Congress of both a "reasonable" tax reduction bill and a. bonus measure. On- motion of Representative Lehl-back of New Jersey, however, this proposal was tabled 97 to 94.

Routed in the conference, members of the former service men's group declared they would take their fight to the floor of the House and would attempt to have the Ways and Means Committee discharged from consideration of the bonus bill. This, they pointed out, would bring about a record vote which would include Democrats as well as Republicans. Victorious in the first showdown on the taxation-bonus question, Mr. L.ongworth said the tax bill would be given right of way in the House when it is reported and its consideration would be expedited. Believe Radio Will Carry Programs to the Miners Bixbeo, Jan.

11. A group of electricians, radio fans and newspaper men 1,400 feet down in the Junction mine here last night heard wireless telegraph signals believed to have be-en United States Navy code. Efforts to tune in on radiophone concerts were unsuccessful, although "carrier waves" were caught, leading to the opinion that with more elaborate preparations radiophone concerts could be heard in the mines. TO MAKE HIS DEBI T. New York.

Jan. 11. Sammy Man-dell, promising Rockford, 111., lightweight, will make his debut in a main bout at Madison Square Garden tonight in a fifteen-round match with Jack Bernstein of Yonkers, former junior lightweight title holder. Madison, Jan. 11.

Ellsworth Bassett, clam digger, house painter, chauffeur and orange grower, has failed in his first efforts to become reconciled to his wife, basketball player and postal clerk, from whom he became estranged when he went to work for Nina Wilcox Putnam Sanderson, novelist, whose unsuccessful efforts to obtain a divorce in Rhode Island are being investigated by the attorney general of that state. Bassett, summoned by Mrs. Sanderson from her Florida orange grove which he had been managing, was ignored by his wife as he called last night at the postoffice where she was working. He went straight to the postoffice after visiting Mrs. Sanderson in New York and resigning his job.

He explained his resignation was due to unfortunate publicity which had been given him and Mrs. Sanderson. The novelist had telegraphed him to come home and arrange his domestic affairs. He told townspeople that Mrs. Bassett was mistaken in her views of his relations with the novelist.

Mrs. Bassett has said that Mrs. Sanderson asked her to get a divorce and it has been said by her lawyer that she contemplates no legal proceedings of anykind involving her husband. Mrs. Bassett kept in the back of the postoffice behind a partition while her husband was out front trying to see her.

After waiting some time Bassett left the office and later Mrs. Bassett was driven in a friend's automobile to her mother's home. Bassett said he had no idea where he would stay. His clothes were all at Mrs. Sanderson's home, he said, and having come from the warm climate of Florida he needed his overcoat.

WOMEN WANT EQUAL BARBERSHOP RIGHTS New Orleans. Jan. 11. Business women of New Orleans have demanded of the New Orleans Association of Commerce equal barbershop rights with men, and the commercial organization has "passed the buck" to the locals of the Barbers' Union and the Master Barbers' Association. The women explained that they wanted quick service and barbershop prices, not the customary taxation of the beauty parlors.

They also want free access to all the city's barber shops and a chance to take their turn with the men. "With the shops open to them," said one barber shop proprietor when he heard of the demand, "the last stronghold of man will have disappeared. BISHOP TEMPLE DIES. Amarillo, Jan. 11.

Bishop Edward A. Temple, 56, of the Episcopal Church, died, at his home here late last night. He had been in poor health several years. He was consecrated missionary bishop of North Texas, December 15, 1910. been made, it is impossible to tell just how the disaster happened.

However, one of the latest reports says that the rose beneath the dreadanught and struck the latter's bows. Last night was unusually dark and despite the numerous searchlights brought into play, litle could be done until daylight, but the salvage craft kept busy while special boats equipped with hydrophones tried, although vainly, to catch any sounds that might be made by the imprisoned men. Hope of the crews' safety has not been entirely abandoned, yet most experts think it wiJI be miraculous if the men are rescued. The submarine's commander Lieutenant Commander Eddis, was a man of much experience, and there is confidence that he would know what to do in the tragic circumstances. Lieutenant Commander Eddis had a close call during the war.

He was junior officer of the submarine E-13 when that craft grounded on the coast of the Danish Island Saltholm in 1915. German destroyers arrived and opened fire and the E-13 was soon ablaze. Her commander ordered the crew to swim ashoro. Nearly all were shot down by the Germans. Lieutenant Commander Eddis, one of the few men to escape, was Interned in Denmark.

It is reported, but not confirmed, that the submarine K-12, badly damaged in a collision with the K-2 near the scene of the Lr24's dlsas- Jter, has sunk in shallow water. New York, Jan. 1 1 Governor Smith and Mayor Ilylan wore In the local political limelight today, speculating on the purpose oi uie governor's visii 10 me 'iiy neinar iinnea vitn tne Mayor's telegram urging Ids t-o-oieration to defeat proposed home rule legislation that would take the power of the veto from the mayor. On his arrival last night the Governor dodged discussion of legislative affairs. Ho said Ids plans wore indefinite, but he ex- pccica to ue nere for a few days.

Albany, Jan. 11. Capitol Hill, here was all but deserted today, as the scene of legislative activity was transferred to New York City where was being held a meeting of the State Home Rule Commission. The probable outcome of the assembly will be a preliminary draft of the bill which is eventually to be pre-' Bcmeu io mo legislature, aesigneci to put into execution provisions of the home rule amendment adopted at the general election last Attention of legislators ns well as municipal officials throughout the state, will be turned toward" the measure which the Home Hule.s Commission is expected to draw un. Recommendations which wereeaid to represent the desires of city of- i ficlals in most of the communities by the home rule amendment were contained in a statement made public last night by the New York State Conference of Mayors.

In the opinion of the executive committee of this organization, which met here yesterday expressly to draft the suggestions, there is too much of a tendency to make a "football of politics" of the home nle question. It is the general belief herethat Governor Smith feels the home rule commission has done everything possible to draft a Just and equitable program. So far he has refused comment on steps which are being taken by the commission, other than to clarify the exact Intention of the amendment adopted last November and to declare that an enabling act, such as is proposed, will do much to eliminate large number of local (Continued on Page Twenty-one) Burglar Gives Chance to. Ask" Tax Exemption Albany, Jan. 11.

The nocturnal; visits of the burglar, the holdup man and the more common varieties of thieves provide an opportunity for residents of New York State to claim some exemption from the In- said today. Scores of letters concerning burglaries and holdups affecting 1923 returns already are being re- ceived, the commission explained, adding that they must be filed not later than April 15. 1924. The writers are required to produce newspaper accounts or extracts from police records to prove the cases, and also to detail value of. property stolen.

One of the most remarkable cases, the commission said, was that of a summer cottager whose stone wall was stolen. Neighbors, he said and proved sold the wall to a road builder. There was no chance of re- covery and the loss was allowed. night, will propose that St. Marks be allowed to withdraw from the local diocese as an Independent unit, at the same time preventing the complete severance of the church from i the denomination.

The withdrawal would be accomplished If at. Mark's deliberately de-faulted the sums assessed against it for diocesan purposes. Bishop Manning, it was understood, would be asked to consent to the default at once, and according to church canons, St. Marks would automatically pass out of the Bishop's control without further discussion. To remain In the denomination, St.

Marks, according to the plan, would-pay Its dues to the general convention. It was understood the would be submitted only if, as is expected, Bishop Manning refuses to permit Dr. Guthrie should continue to conduct the so-called pagan serv. Ices. Cummins' Defeat Revolt On Transportation Law Washington, Jan.

11. Drastic amendment of the transportation and railroad valuation acts was proposed yesterday in the Senate by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, who brought about election of Ellison D. Smith, South Carolina Democrat, as chairman of the interstate commerce committee. At the same time Chairman Smith stated that he would call the committee together within a few days and that it would handle railroad legislation "sanely" and in the manner the people will want -their representatives in Congress to handle it. Crew of Submarine Lost, Is British Official Belief Eight Coppers Are Suspended When Their Efforts Fail to Produce Results Also Begins Drive Against Corner Loungers Who Molest Women.

Philadelphia. Jan. 11. Before leaving for his home early today, to snatch a few hours' sleep. Brigadier General Smedley D.

Butler expressed satisfaction with conditions as he had found them at the end of the fourth day of his campaign to, rid the city of vice and crime. "We shall drive right along," said General Butler. "Any knock that appears in the machinery will be taken out so that it will run smoothly." He said he believed that most of the law-breakers had been run out of the city and that the big job now was to keep them out. The General lost no time in filling' the places of the six police lieutenants and two sergeants suspended yesterday when at the end of the 48-hour limit they had failed to clean up their districts to his satisfaction. But he said, the replacements will have to show they mean business.

"They will also be given 48 hours in which to clean up, and if they don't do it. they'll go too." llndejthe civil service commis-sfoji law? the suspended men will have five "days in which to show cause' why they should not be demoted. While General Butler was shaking up the executive personnel-of the4 police, raids on questionable resorts were being conducted in nearly every district. They continued far into the night and resulted in a score of arrests and the confiscation of many stills and quantities of mash and high powered beer. Police Lieutenants, after making the rounds of their districts, reported that every known resort in the "Tenderloin" was closed tight and that not a single gambling house was operating.

The time limit which Geh. Butler gave the police to have the city as "clean as a hound's tooth" ex- (Continued on Page Twenty-one) Famous Artists Who Seek the Services of Myrtle Rich, St. Louis "Magazine Girl," Tell Why She is Worthy Successor to Audrey Munson as America's Foremost Beauty. WHY THEY CALL HER PERFECT MODEL READ IT IN SUNDAY TELEGRAM Mexicans Rush To Churches In Fear of 'Quake Mexico City, Jan. 10.

(Radio, via the Fort Worth Star-Te c-gram. Associated Press) The revolution has been crowded from the public mind and the front pages of newspapers here in, the last few days. by the prophecy of a British prognosticator that Mexico City would be destroyed by an earthquake and volcanic eruptions tomorrow. As a result of the prophecy, fear has gripped the minds of the ignorant, superstitious classes and for the last few dayg they have been crowding the churches. The fear-stricken people have taken as an ill' omen the fact that the Volcano Popocatpetal, overlooks ing toe city, has been emitting smoke in the early mornings of the last few days.

Cabled reports of events of the outside world are being cited by believers of the prophecy. They point to front page displays of the extreme cold in the United States, storms off the British coast, floods in France, avalanches in the Alps and recent earthquake disturbances in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua as proof of their belief. VENIZELOS MAY PROVE FAILURE Athens, Jan. 11 The most prominent orthodox Liberals refuse to co-operate in the forming of a Danglis cabinet. M.

Kauardis was next approached, but he declined the difficult task and the situation continued confused. Venizelos told a group of Cretans last night that unless his political friends co-operated with him, he would again quit Greece. 0 1 Athens. Jan. 11.

(Associated Press) Ex-Premier "Venizelos decided this morning to form a cabinet in which he will be Premier without portfolio, with Georges Roussos, Republican-Liberal leader, as Foreign Minister, as the only possible solution of the protracted governmental crisis. Says Husband Deserted Her While on World Tour Pittsburgh. Jan. 11. Mrs.

Helen W. Dort was recommended a divorce from Ralph B. Dort, son of the head of the Dort Motor Company, of Flint, in the Master's Report filed In common pleas court yesterday. Mrs. Dort, who is the daughter of John S.

Wilson, a prominent real estate dealer testified that Dort de serted her at Ceylon, India, while they were making a tour around the orld. They were married October If. 1913. was after at New York, while Dort attending college. St.

Mark's Church May Withdraw From Control Of Bishop Manning Count's Tango Steps Win Bride But Not Favor of Her Parents BY DAVID LAWRENCE. (Copyright, 1924, by The Star-Gazette.) Washington, Jan. 11. Defeat of Senator Albert Cummins of Iowa for the position of chairman of the Senate committee on Interstate Commerce is nothing more or less than a manifestation of revolt against the transportation act, known as the Esch-Cummlns. law, because of the part the Iowa senator played in its making.

The overthrow of the veteran Republican senator, who, by all customs and rules of seniority prevailing in Congress, should have held the chairmanship so long as his party had a majority, is not due to any dissatisfaction on personal grounds. If it were, the combination of insurgents with the Democrats, which brought about Mr. Cummins' defeat for the chairmanship of his committee, could just as welj have been applied in preventing the election of the Iowa senator to the much coveted position, the presidency pro tern of the Senate itself. Some of Mr. Cummins best friends 'in the west voted against him, contending that their fight was one of principle rather than personality.

The insurgent bloc Is composed largely of senators from the agricultural utates, wtiere the feeling prevails in many quarters that the present transportation act ties the hands of the Interstate Commerce Commission and prevents the hitter from ordering reductions in freight rates on farm products. The so-called earning: clause of the act London, Jan. 11. (Associated Press) The British submarine L-2 4, rammed by the dreadnaught Resolution yesterday, is lying 30 fathoms deep about 11 miles south of Portland Bill, according to latest reports from Weymouth. There is nothing to indicate that her.

crew of 43 men have not perished. It is taken for granted that all the men were below when, the boat left Portland for the maneuvers in which she was to take part, as the weather was too heavy to allow them to remain on deck. Until further investigation has dance, the Count said: "Well, perhaps Colonel Rogers did object because I'm an Austrian and divorced, but my reception by him was anything but severe. He turned over his apartment to us, told us to stay a month or two and then went away to Tuxedo." The count remarked that all was well with the Colonel, whereupon the Countess, laughingly toying with a cigarette interrupted him by saying "Well, I wouldn't go bo far as to say that." They plan to sail away to Austria in a couple of months and the count plans to enter the tennis contests of New York, Jan. 11.

The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York, of which William T. Manning is Bishop, today faced the possibility of the withdrawal of St. Mark's-ln-the-Bouwerie, one of the oldest churches in the United States. The church, of which Dr. William Guthrie is rector, may withdraw unless Bishop Manning, at a meeting Monday with Dr.

Guthrie and his vestrymen, consents to continuance in St. Mark's Church and, Taris hall of alleged pagan services to which he recently took exception. Monday Is the expiration day of a time limit given Dr. Guthrie at a re-rent meeting at the Diocese Synod House when Bishop Manning was understood to have notified the rector he must modify or altogether eliminate symbolic services, including dances In which scantily clad young women took part. Dr.

Guthrie, it was learned last New York, Jan. 11. The dainty tango steps of Count Ludwig Salm-Von Hoggstraeten are said to have captured the heart of Millicent Rogers and brought her to the altar at city hall last Tuesday when they arrived without wedding ring, because it was so sudden. The tango steps, however, are said not to have been so appealing to the young woman's parents and there are reports that Colonel H. II.

Rogers, father of the bride, frowned severely on the match, because the count is an Austrian rind divorced. Telling of his instant love for Miss Rogers, whom he met at a the Olympic jarow.