The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 1

A GOOD PAPER FOR THIS NECK OF THE WOODS DAI Sixty-Second Year No 182 MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OP BOISE IDAHO TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 23 1926 LEASED WIRE MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Price Five Cents TRUCE'S TE1 Paris Buyers Get 4 First Parcel of Russian Jewels MOSCOW (Special Cable by Laura Knickerbocker fo Universal Service) American debutantes will not be able to wear any of the Russian crown jewels unless they buy them in Paris Outbidding four Anglo-American competitors a group of 17 French jewelers took the first parcel of the flashing treasures privately auctioned by the soviet government for 83015000 bettering by 5140000 the American bid of $2875000 The first parcel Includes 24000 carats of diamonds 10000 carats of emeralds 10000 carats of sapphires the last crown six necklaces of matched 25 carat diamonds and six diadems None of the ancient show pieces such as the crown of Catherine the great or the Orloff diamond were included A second auction will be held in months Pack of Raving Dogs Attacks and Kills Citizen YONKERS (A) A pack of dogs ferocious as timber wolves killed Harry Griffin a one-armed mechanic In an isolated section of the Bronx river road one mile north of Yonkers early Monday The lacerated body the overcoat and clothing torn away was found shortly before noon Torn earth tobout the body testified to fight against the animals 'The body was lacerated from the feet to the head The overcoat and other clothing torn to shreds were found near the body Police believed that the man was killed by a pack of police dogs A woman tenant of an apartment house some distance' from the scene of the attack told police that she had heard several dogs barking during the night Griffin who was about 40 years old lived with his mother in an eastern section of Yonkers known as the "jungle" University Awards Woman Honors She Won 44 Years Ago BALTIMORE Md UP) Honors won 44 years ago poised Monday over the brow of Mrs Christine Ladd Franklin The 1 awarding of a Ph degree to the woman credited itith the crowning activity in the field of logic -since the days of Aristotle was a feature of Johns Ilopklns half century anniversary celebration Christine Ladd now1' the wife of Dr Fabian Franklin and a Columbia university lecturer the second' woman be admitted to Johns Hopkins was the first of tier sex to complete the requirements for a degree At that time Johns Hopkins graduate school did not award degrees to women In 1893 the rules were changed but Mrs diploma never was delivered When she applied for entrance to the university in the spring of 1878 after she had received a bachelor of arts degree from Vas-sar in 1869 Dr Fabian Franklin then an associate in mathe- matics was assigned to examine the scholastic record of the wom-- an who was later tq bebome his wife They were married in Wets Meet in Conference to In- augurate Fight Against Prohi- bition Senator Edwards Says Law WASHINGTON (By Universal Service) A grim and dismal picture of the nation after six years of prohibition was painted as wet and liberal leaders convened here Monday for a two conference summoned to Inaugurate the greatest drive against the dry act since it became effective Speakers at the opening session in the afternoon and at the banquet' of 500 Monday night unleashing their resentment denounced prohibition In scathing terms blamed it for many national ills attacked the Anti-Saloon league and cried out for modification Prohibition even made God a lawbreaker the conference was told by the Rev James Emprlngham national superintendent of the Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church' and his statement startled his listeners It was the Rev Mr first public speech since he Issued the report of the temperance society urging liberalization of the Volstead act which created a counter attack in Episcopal sources "God breaks prohibition law every moment by germination" the Rev Mr Emprlngham declared Hypocrisy Within Church He defended the report of the church temperance society and struck boldly at what he described as "hypocrisy within the declaring prominent Episcopalians who never lifted a finger to get prohibition are getting praise for saying the law must be enforced because it 'is the law" Senator Edward I Edwards of New Jersey termed prohibition a mockery and hypocrisy which has become a stench in the nostrils of right-living and right-thinking people" Assailing the nti-Saloon league he said: All sorts of trickery deceit fraud and extravagant claims of virtues have been practiced by this band of anti-leaguers whose only interests in their questionable (Continued oc Page Five) OMAHA SNIPER Howard Carter Farmhand Admits Killings Is Taken by Section Foreman OMAHA' Neb (-)' Residents of Omaha and Council Bluffs drew their first free breath of a week Monday night For in the Omaha city Jail a transient farm hand of medium height smooth shavfen heavy build and giving the name of Frank Carter 46 was held as the sniper whose week of murderous activity" re has resulted in the death of two the wounding of one and- the terrifying of hundreds Carter cool and apparently unperturbed admitted the killings to newspaper men and police explaining they were the result of a career of crime which he wanted to hide by killing A section foreman Bruce is responsible for the capture for which combined' police forces of Omaha and Council Bluffs have worked incessantly night and day Bruce riding a hand car sighted Carter walking the tracks near Bartlett Iowa 86 miles southeast of here early Monday just after he had crawled from a hay stack hiding place Proceeding into Bartlett ahead of Carter Bruce recruited a four man posse which took Carter without firing a shot Carter's explanation of the shooting was: shot because I want to get caught I just got the inclination to shoot" Uses Silencer William McDevitt a dairy man shot a week ago Sunday night on the street and Dr A Searles shot two nights later in his office were victims He used a 22 caliber automatic 'Pistol with a silencer Aside from the slaying of McDevitt and Doctor Searles Carter admitted having fired into the Thompson Drug store last' Tuesday night shattering a plate glass window and putting bullets through neighboring residence windows No one Was injured by these "I wanted to keep the cops thinking some one in the neighborhood was doing it so they look for me somewhere else" Carter said So well did his ruse work that constant patrol of the neighborhood was maintained almost all week day and night Carter asserted that when he fired into the drug store window a block BIG CLEANUP IN Federal Officials Co Operate With Police Department in Rounding Up Aliens Raid Famous Sicilian Dives CHICAGO (By Universal Service) answered gangland's challenge of death here Monday night and rounded uj more than 125 aliens in concentrated drive on the foreign district of the city United States Immigration authorities working in cooperation with the police raided seven'll of the most famous Sicilian dives Sixty-five detectives under the supervision of Jeremiah Hurley supervisor of immigration Inspectors who together with four of his aids arrived in Chicago last week to make plans for the clean up made-the drive The officers were ordered to enter the places quietly take all persona in the places to police stations and go hack after more the captives to be ciuestioned later The places raided Included that of Hoy Lisi where 40 men were taken with "Diamond Esposito The latter a power in city politics went with the men taken in his restaurant with plans to have them released as soon as possible Invade Private Homes Upon the authority of Deputy Superintendent of Police Zimmer Captain Lynch of the Maxwell street tlon sent squads of men to -invade private homes and take into custody nil aliens who were considered undesirable The officers carried John Doe search warrants Several men were taken into custody at a barber shop They carried a list of more than a hundred individuals wanted as undesirables Local police officials began preparing for the cleanup Immediately after Washington took cognizance of the situation a few weeks ago With the arrival of the federal agents the lilans were hurried up The" preparations were so completo and so secret that the gangs did not know of the upproach of the police They were wholly unprepared Many documents and records of the gangs were confiscated and'-police believe that these will aid in deportation proceedings FLIGHT PLANS ABANDONED A MARDEL PLATA Argentine (A) plans for extension of the flight of the Spanish trans-Atlantic aviators headed by Comdr Ramon Franco have been abandoned When the fliers arrived here end- ing their long vdyage from Madrid Spain it was understood they might continue across to the west coast and then onward eventually reaching New York KINGS TO VISIT IiONDOX CAIRO Egypt (A) King Fuad lias accepted an invitation from King George to visit London lie hopes to make the trip early in June after the opening of the Egyptian parliament mm Tariff Revision To Be Big Issue Oldfield Asserts TULSA Okla Democrats will make the party-old stand for a downward revision of the tariff the paramount Issue In the congressional campaigns next fall Representative Oldfield of Arkansas chairman of the Democratic congressional campaign committee declared in an address here Monday advocate a revision of the tariff act" he said "to a point where it will be a competitive revenue tariff: Where it will not benefit the pet industries of the administration ut the expense of the agricultural population" He flatly denied Postmaster General New's recent statement to Kentucky Republicans that the Democrats were without an issue to carry to the country "I want to deny this We never had more or bigger issues" he said "And outlined them as follows: "Flagrant abuse of his appointing power by President Coolidge resulting in the x-irtqal destruction of the tariff and federal trade commissions and the threatened distraction of the interstate commerce commission "Failure of the present Republican congress to grant the farmers any sort of the permanent relief "Complete domination of the administration by the ultra rich as shown by the failure of tho trade commission to turn over to the department of justice evidence obtained in Us investigation of the Aluminum trust over which the secretary of the treasury is the dominating influence" YALE SEEKS20 MILLION NEW HAVEN Conn LP) Twenty million dollars more in endowment for Yale university was asked by President James Rowland Angell Monday The money he said Is needed to maintain the educational standards of the university and should be raised in five years The endowment will be for three purposes: More adequate compensation for the faculty an increase in its number and an adequate permanent endowment for the great university library which is in sight DIE CLASSIC Warren Brown Second Harry Kennedy Third Gaston Fourth Kent Drops Out Time 1:55:58 ASHTON Ida (A) Howard Salley of Shot Gun Pass Idaho driving William dog team Monday won the famous American dog derby here In the most sensational race ever run over the American course His time was 1:5558 13 minutes' and 38 seconds less than the record established In 1922 by Gaston i Warren Brown 13-year-old school boy of McCall Idaho finished second In 2:03:40 Harry Kennedy Anthony Idaho was third in 2:03:51 and "Smoky" Gaston Lake Mont finished in fourth money 2:03:59 It was a day of record smashing The first driver to finish the first lap of the race lowered the record for the first lap Thitf four winners lowered the record for the course Ten records were made and broken during the two hours the race was in progress with Salley emerging as American champion on the tenth Sixteen Teams Start Sixteen teams started In the trail classic leaving the starting point two minutes apart Within three minutes after the last team left the starting post the first team to leave It broke into view and chased the last starter down the main street of Ashton on which eastern bankers- rubbed elbows with lumberjacks from the upper Payette country Tud Kent champion during 1925 did not finish the race though he drove all three laps His time was in the neighborhood of three hours and ho turned off the course to take his dogs to the kennels about 200 yards from the finish line The race started in balmy springlike weather and ended in a snow storm of blizzard proportions but with the winners being established on a margin of seconds it failed to drive the packed thousands of spectators from the streets A crowd estimated at more than 10000 viewed the race in which as many teams competed as in any previous year MRS DAVID JJELASC0 DIES NEW YORK (By Universal Service) -Mrs David Belasco wife of "the dean of the American theatre" died Monday at the home of her son-in-law Morris Gest Before her marriage she was Miss Cecelia Loverlch of California When she was stricken shortly before Christmas Belasco said this of her: "For 40 years she has been my inspiration During my days of struggle for recognition she laughed at our troubles always saying: mind better things are Just around the Countess Cathcart Turns Tables on Federal Officials NEW YORK (A) The countess of Cathcart Monday turned the tables at least temporarily on government officials While she was enjoying the sights of New -York city harried officials spent most of the holiday consulting on the status of her case United States District Attorney Buckner one of the consulting officials considered that the countess passed from the Jurisdiction of the federal -court back to that of the Immigration bureau of the department of labor when she signed a personal bond Sunday night giving her liberty for 10 days This made it unnecessary he said to hold the scheduled hearing in federal court Tuesday on the writ of habeas corpus The announcement that there would be no habeas corpus hearing was made by Mr Buckner after he and two of his assistants had conferred for an hour and a half with Assistant Solicitor Retisler of the labor department "The hearing Tuesday is Mr Buckner said The matter Is now back in the Jurisdiction of the labor department It wag explained that the countess could stay here for 10 days forfeit her bond by not returning to Ellis Island be arrested on a warrant returned to Ellis Island and then perhaps be released on another writ of habeas corpus While the officials were occupied with their problem the countess was enjoying her temporary liberty attending a luncheon at the Rltz Carlton hotel receiving visits from friends and sightseeing in New York -She maintained that she was determined to to the CHINESE PRISONERS SUICIDE SHANGHAI (JP) Following the attempted Jail break in which 100 Chinese prisoners attempted to escape from the French municipal jail last Friday four of the uninjured survivors committed suicide fearing punishment it was disclosed Monday Five convicts were killed and 11 wounded when the attempt was repulsed Six of the wounded have since succumbed to their Injuries President Coolidge Eulogizes of His in Address Before National Educators WASHINGTON (By Universal Service) The capital with deep reverence paid tribute Monday to the memory of George Washington on the one hundred ninety-fourth anniversary of his birth From the shrine at Mount Vernon the spirit of the 'father returned to the city bearing his name There were Innumerable gatherings Flags fluttered in a gentle breeze from buildings and homes Governmental business was set aside At the city's official celebration former Solicitor 'General James Beck said that to Washington above all men we owe the fact that today we are land one 1 people and have one He continued: never intended' to commit his nation to a policy of isolation Isolation is Impossible America can be a helpful member of the community without sacrificing its independence It has shown this in the past Independence and not isolation would be policy today" Coolidge Eulogizes Washington As a crowning feature to the official observance President Coolidge Monday night eulogized 'Washington before a monster gathering of the department of superintendence of the National Education association in the auditorium In the senate and house farewell address' was read by Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut and Representative John Rankin Democrat of Mississippi At Continental Memorial hall Daughters and Sons of the American Revolution held joint services Mrs Anthony Wayne Cook' president general of the A and William Tyler Page clerk of the house were among the speakers The American Legion birthday bal attracted a- host of prominent -people Senator Sergio Osmena president pro tempore of the Philippine senate presided at patriotic exercises of the Filipino club of Washington TAX BILL THY Speedy Action Expected on Measure as Agreed Upon by Conferees WASHINGTON (By Universal Service) Speedy passage by the house Tuesday of the 8387000000 tax slash bill as reported by the senate and house conferees was planned by administration leaders Monday A savage attack is planned upon some features of the measure chiefly the one applying to the lower estate tax rates of 1921 to estates coming under the higher rates of the 1924 law known as the retroactive provision Efforts will be made to Instruct the house conferees to insist upon repealing that provision Representative John Tilson of Connecticut Republican floor leader said he expected the measure to come through the battle unscathed within two hours after debate begins Charges caxpe from the Progressives' camp that the retroactive provision was designed to relieve the estates of the wealthy from the They said it was designed only to help millionaires Although a majority of the house may be against the retroactive provisions It was not in the original house bill in view of the necessity for speedy passage It was not expected Monday night that enough votes would be mustered by the opposition to delay adoption of the measure Senator SmoOt plans to bring up the revenue bill in the senate on Wednesday 2 CHINESE PORTS CLOSED HONGKONG (iP) Effective Sunday the commissioner of customs at Canton has closed the ports of Canton and Whampoa No steamers left here for Canton Monday morning except one which Is sailing to Shameen the foreign colony there with provisions under the plan of the British ensign As a result of the action the cargoes of shlpa of five nations are delayed Advices from Hongkong Sunday told of a strongly worded protest forwarded by the commissioner of customs of Canton to the Canton government regarding alleged violation of treaties by the strike committee in seizing and selling cargoes The commissioner threatened in this protest to stop shipments from Canton as well as the landing of-Import cargoes pmpt nil I President Insists on Senate Ratifying Italian Debt Settlement Action in Doubt WASHINGTON (A) President Coolidge who is insisting on a prompt ratification of the Italian debt settlement conferred Monday with Senator Smoot Republican Utah a member of the American -debt commission concerning the prospect of early senate consideration of the consideration The President was informed that the Italian agreement which is facing formidable opposition in the senate could not be called upon at least until after the senate had disposed of the case of the Aluminum Company of America and the house resolution for appointment of congressional commission to lease Muscle Shoals' The Italian settlement probably will be the first of the six bills approving debt agreements with as many foreign nations to be called up Little opposition has developed to those affeoting Belgium and the smaller European nations Borah Opposes Plan Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee and Senator Reed Democrat Missouri are the leaders in the fight against the Italian settlement They are supported by a number of senators on both sides of the chamber apd friends of the agreement negotiated- last summer conceded that thtf' result is in doubt President Coolidge In insisting upon favorable action by the senate takes the position that the agreement was worked out by a non-partiean commission of experts who were in a position to judge capacity to pay He also believes that if congress should fail to ratify Italy would be relieved of the incentive of making any new move to fund its two billion dollar debt DEMOCRATS WILL OPPOSE SETTLEMENT WASHINGTON (By Universal Service) Grave danger of the Italian debt settlement being nullified loomed Monday as the senate Democrats agreed to present an almost united front in opposition to it The decision was reached at a series of conferences between Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas minority leader and small groups of Democratic senators Democratic leaders are confident that a combination with the Republican insurgents who oppose the settlement will be strong enough to send the agreement back to the finance committee for burial Combined with about 15 Republicans and Senator Shipstead of Minnesota Farmer-Laborlte the coalition would command a majority of the senate The administration is fully aware of the situation in the senate and is alarmed lest the months of wort required to bring about the agreement with Italy should be turned down ROYAL CASTLES ARE TO BEJjADE MODERN STOCKHOLM (A) Steam heat and running water are to be installed in the old royal castles of Sweden In a special budget Just submitted to the Riksdag the government asks for the requisite funds For water supply in the 500-year-old Grlpsholm castle located on an island near Stockholm an appropriation of 812000 is requested and -816000 is asked for a central heating place in the sixteenth century Halmstad castle on the west coast Though once inhabited by the Swedish kings and their families 'the Grlpsholm castle is now used as a museum and national picture gallery one of its priceless treasures being a contemporary portrait of Queen Elizabeth of England DENIES MURDER CHARGE WEWOKA Okla (JP) Erman Higdon 22' pleaded 'not guilty Monday when arraigned before Judge George Crump "in state district court on a charge of murder growing' out of the death on February 1 4 of Rita Maygosa his fiancee His trial was 'set for March 14 DEDICATE HALL LOR ANGELES (A) Patriotic hall a 81000000 structure built by the county was dictated here Sunday to the memory of veterans of all of war Veterans from the Indian wars to the World war took part in the service OTCICRIRE Idaho Senator Opens Fight Against World Court Before Vast Crowd in Chicago CHICAGO (By Universal Service) William Borah before 15000 cheering Americans In the coliseum Monday announced the platform on which he will be asked to run for President of the United States It is an amplification of the Washington-Jefferson formula-friendly relatione with all nations but entangling alliances with none The senator nailed down an additional plank It is that the people of the United States have a right to take the country into -European brawls for all time or so lohg as the nation may endure but such final decision shall not be made until the whole case has been presented to them 'Thus far 'he insisted' the' forcing of the vote of adherence to the court by the senate was accomplished only after gag rule had- been clamped on that body and the people had been denied the full record They may go in' he added after full consideration but so far as he was concerned he was ready to devote his energies to enlightening them on the so far1 practiced Then he declared his belief that this country would not go In while the great assemblage rose and cheered May Launch New party The Borah pronouncement is broad enough to carry the fight right up to the doors of the next Republican national convention Coming only a few houtu after the ringing oration of Senator Reed of Missouri who also burned all his party bridges and took an independent stand it gave rise to the suggestion that the summer may yet witness the launching of an American party led by Borah and Reed The request to Borah that he lead the America-first forces in a great presidential conflict has been in process of formation for some time' The present plan is to submit it formally immediately after the November elections and to begin then the task of organizing a nation-wide movement When Senator Bordh arose to speak he must have recalled another great scene in the same auditorium in 1912 when as one of the floor leaders for Theodore lie made the great fight against the report of the credentials committee The coliseum was packed 'but the significance of numbers lay not so much in those present in the flesh as in the millions on the qir routes who listened in Three-of the more powerful broadcasting stations in the country carried the speech It was estimated that not less than 5000000 heard it Former Mayor 1 William Hale Thompson first spoke in Introducing Charles Barrett the permanent chairman "We are gathered here" said Mr Thompson "in a hall where Presidents have been made to hear the most important message ever delivered in this historic building" Borah Termed Modern Moses Mr Barrett in Introducing Borah said: "We are looking for a Moses to lead us out of the wilderness of internationalism Thank God we can point with pride to Senator William The roof then shook It was some moments before the wild cheering subsided Senator Borah was wholly at ease but with his intellectual face set sternly as he began The senator was not in getting to the point where he indicted mercilessly the imposition of cloture in the United States senate "Cloture it he safd dramatically "comes only when foreign powers are undertaking to break down American principles 1 am here today -my countrymen to continue the debate stifled in the United States senate" Again the girders shook under the impact of the mighty shouts of Johns Hopkins University Will Return to Its First Principles of Graduate Instructions BALTIMORE UP) Johns Hopkins university Monday celebrated its half century anniversary with an announcement of an impending return to its first principles of graduate 'instructions and research- The alma mater of Rowland the physicist Remsen the chemist Osier the physician Sylvester the mathematician Morris the classicist-Martin the biologist and Gildersleeve the Greciai will abolish the purely under-grqdu-ate first two years of its present curriculum and devote Itself to research and preparation for research When the vision of President Frank Goodnow and its board of trustees had been realized Johns Hopkins will grant doctor of philosophy and master of degree? only outside of its medical and engineering schools No date has been set for the change It is estimated that an additional endowment of at least six-million dollars will be required to "put the plan into full effect and to make available higher salaries 'To enable the university to add to the faculty men of outstanding ability" Fifty years ago when the first president- Daniel Colt Gilman was Inaugurated the trustees determined to devote the resources of Johns Hopkins to graduate education and research at that time regarded as a new and Important venture in American education "The results have exceeded the most optimistic hopes of 50 years ago" statement says "a recent compilation of the leading men of science in the United States showing that 245 of them were trained at Johns Hopkins" Activities Extended Researching having enlarged the boundaries of knowledge including in collegiate as well as graduate teaching much that was unknown 50 years ago the statement continues curricula have been extended and Johns Hopkins among other universities (has extended its activities to Include fields not associated with research and preparation for it with the following results: "Graduate schools which should emphasize freedom of teaching personal contact between teacher and student and stimulation -of independent thought have been Invaded by methods more appropriate to collegiate instruction "The student preparing for research work is required to Spend vtoo many years in general study before he begins to concentrate Upon productive work "The increased number of students has required a more elaborate system of administrative organization with the result that the professors and instructors find too little time available for their preparation for the function and stimulation of research Johns Hopkins plan contemplates that: "Only such students will be attracted and selected as may possess the necessary mental endowment and equipment for research "More Intensive training will be given such students unhampered and unimpeded by the deadened weight of for the two degrees to be granted doctor of philosophy which ordinarily requires four years of residence and for master which ordinarily requires three years of residence will be based on efficiency and accomplishment rather than on years of residence Present medical school and engineering school will be continued both of these being now on a graduate basis" FASHION FAVORS LONDON Spring this year is spring tn: bringing with it the "blues" Fashion' experts declare it will be an all-blue season and all tones and half tones of blue lints will be 'worn by well dressed women A new pastel blue that it is said will be popular for afternoon and evening wear has been christened "Elizabeth Blue" after the- duchess of York' who like other members of the royal family is particularly fond of all shades of this color (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Five) I 4.