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1 SATURDAY EVENING DaklanD Crffiune APRITJ 27, 1929 U. S. DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE MOVE DISMAYS Precedence PLAGUE HITS AN HOUR RAID How Co-eds Were Egg Shell Shocked MISS MARJORIE STRAIN (kneeling) and MISS VERA OSCARSON. demonstrating the catapult with which boy students of the University of California are said to have spattered seveVal co-eds. The bespattered co-eds went to the Berkeley police station to lodge complaitns against the alleged "malefactors," but later decided to withdraw their complaints, convinced that it was all done in fun.

TRIBUNE photo. LEAGUEBARS LIMITATIONS ON RESERVES FOLLOWS RUM BOMBINGS 1 mil Li vltJMlJMM JL EFFORT Dr. Schacht, German Leader, Leaves Paris Suddenly for Berlin, Obviously to Try Again to Save Meet PARIS, April 27. C4) pr. Hjalmar Schacht, chief of It he' German delegation to the secpnd Dawes committee, left suddenly for Berlin this afternoon after a conference with Owen D.

Young, American delegate and" chairman of the committee. The inference drawn at headquarters of the reparations conference was that Dr. Schaht had been impressed with the necessity of making a new effort to meet the allies, half way on their demands in order to prevent a break-up of, the conference. Pioneer Engineer Dies in S. F.

Home SAN FRAvnisnn a-it John Dove Mclsaacs, chief consulting engineer of the Southern wi.iu tiMiipuny ior many years, died suddenly at his home, 7 Russian Hill place, yesterday. He was 80, years, of age. Isaacs had heen an the railroad and a resident of San Francisco since 1876. Entering the draughting department of the company as a draughting engineer, he was retired In 1923 as consulting engineer when he had reached the age limit. He was a member of the Masons, the American Society of Civil Engineers, an fltie Mnirlnaai.ln.r clety of New York.

ie leaves three sons, Henry M. Isaacs, Portland attorney; James New York, and Frank San Francisco, and a daughter, Mrs. V. C. Morris of San Francisco.

Funeral arrangements have not been made. Club Fraud Suspect To Appear in Court SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, lecturer and writer, charged with using the ma Us to defraud, was ordered by U. 8.

Commissioner Arthur Fisk yesterday' to appear before the district court today for order for removal to Texas. Fisk refused to reduce abll from $2500 to $1,500. Mrs. Murray is alleged to have wrongfully used names of prominent persons In attempting to persuade Mrs. Leila Mae Barnaum of Amar-lllo, Texas, to Join a literary organization.

British Envoy Is Guest in S. F. SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. Captain P. J.

Gwyn, attache of the British embassy in Toklo, en route to England on leave, arrived here yesterday with Mrs. Gwyn on the N. Y. K. liner Tenyo Maru.

Gerald Campbell, British consul general, and his wife met them. Gwyn expects to receive a post with a British regiment In India. Mrs. Gwyn Is the former Edith Tllley, daughter of Sir John British am-basnador to Japan. U.

S. Steel President To Get Gary Medal NEW Anrll 97 IO The trmt nu'avH morlal medal for distinguished aunievement in tne jron and steel industry was made today by directors of the American Iron and Steel Institute to James A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel of the institute's committee on awara. rormai presentation win db maae at a amner May z. STUDENTS RAISE TUITION EVANSTON, April 27 (P) A voluntary raise In tuition at Garrett Biblical Institute, largest Methodist theological school, has been voted by the students after learning the Institution was in financial straits due-; to depleted Income from its real estate endow ments.

The students petitioned the trustees yesterday to Increase the annual fee from 145 to $70. The trustees approved the proposal. NEW PENDING ON REPARATIONS Egg-Hurling U. Students Freed as Girls Forgive Tests Wits Of Capital Hostesses Seating Arrangements, Still Most Trying Issue of Washington Society. By SALLIK V.

H. PICKETT. WASHINGTON, April 27. (P) One way of solving the question of precedence has been demonstrated by the Persian minister, Mlrza Da- voiid Khan Kefta. Giving out the list of guests who accepted his in vitation to a reception in celebra tion of the anniversary of the coronation of his Imperial majesty Reza Shah Pahlavl, he placed the name of the vice-president, his sister nnd official hostess, Mrs.

Edward Everett Gann, and her husband on one sheet of paper. The diplomats also had a sheet to themselves, and other officials were listed in the same way. Mrs. Gann arrived In the middle of the receiving period alone, and expressed the regret of her brother and that of her husband in not being able to accept the invitation and attend, and expressed the good wishes of the vice-president for the health, happiness and prosperity of the shah. She wore a handsome visiting costume of champagne color and gold.

The anniversary cake which adorned the long tea table with its red and white flowers and candles, was at least three feet tall a pyramid of cakes, graduated from a large one at the bottom and tapering up to the smallest one which was capped with a sort of a crystal palace effect, One could not even vaguely guess what the social program of the President and Mrs, Hoover holds, for nothing is given out in advance. However, their dinner or luncheon lists are divulged they are of far more than usual interest. One. night during the week they had Justice and Mrs. Edward Terry Sanford of the supreme court circle, and Secretary of Interior and Mrs.

Ray Lyman Wilbur, Senator and Mrs. Lawrence C. Phlpps. and Dr. John Grier Hlbben," president of Princeton university, and Mrs.

Hibben among their guests, and at the same dinner was John Drinkwater, the playwright, who wrote "Abraham Another dinner, party, quite Impromptu and growing from two or three guests to a dozen, included Senator and Mrs. Arthur R. Rob inson of Indiana, Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio and his niece and official hostess, Miss Grace Burton: Mrs. Theodore Hoover, the President's sister-in-law, who came from California to attend the D.

A. R. nnneress as state regent and delegate, and Dr. E. C.

Franklin of Leland Stanford university and Mrs. Franklin. Mrs. Hoover attended the Senate Ladies' Luncheon club's first Iuncti-enn of the snrlne on Tuesday. Mrs, George H.

Moses, the president of the club, took Mrs. Hoover upon her rlcht. and Mrs. Porter H. Dale, wife of Senator Dale of Vermont, president of the Congift club; sat at her left.

At the White House muslcale which Mrs. Hoover gave a week ago, Mrs. William Howard Taft, wife of the chief justice and former mistress of the White House, is said to have sat at the right of Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Garsi sat on her etl.

The event was unofficial and no undue significance was attached to the seating, but Speaker Long-worth of the house sat next to Mrs. Gann. IN S. F. SURF Wader Walks Ml to Ocean, Dies as Wife, Bahy Look On.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 27. While his wife and 4-year-old son watched him, helpless to aid, Otis Corlis, 27, Laguna street, a railroad employe, was caught by a heavy breaker and drowned late yesterday In the surf near Flelsh-hacker pool. A few moments before his fatal effort to wade along the beach he was rescued from the surf by friends. When he first entered the water he was thrown from his feet by the rush of the breakers.

Bystanders rushed Into the water and helped hm toshore. After few minutes' rest he insisted on wading again. As Mrs. Corlis and their son stood on the beach he walked directly into the curling crest of a breaking wave. He was carried under.

Harry Maudsley, a life guard, dived In and found the body, which was taken to the morgue. Mrs. Corlis declared, that the drowning was accidental, as her husband had no reason to commit suicide. Man Acquitted in Crash Damage Suit NEVADA April 27. After thtree days of hearing testimony offered by a score of witnesses, a mixed Jury of six men and six women, in an hour's deliberation absolved defendant Thomas Woodruff from all damage claims brought by Mrs.

Lucille Bray and C. H. Barkdull, following an automobile accident In which Bray was killed. The couple brouoght. suit for $60,000, after refusing insurance settlements of $4000 and $2000, respectively.

Hotel Awning Burns, Building Is Saved A cigarette tossed out of a window of the Stanford hotel, 1108 Stanford avenue, late last night set fire to an awning and Ior a lew moments converted the facade of the. building Into; a mass of flames. The fire department responded, to an alarm Just as the blare was getting a foothold on the building Itself. The blaze was extinguished at a nominal damage. There was no panle among the guest.

Esther Madden eWfS the heteh MAN WN AREA SWEPT or E5 State Fights Disease in Storm Devastated District; Death Toll Reaching 72; Families Flee Mississippi ATLANTA, April. 27 W)- South Georgia communities in the path of the series of tornadoes that wept- up the Atlantic seaboard Thursday night, killing 72 persons, injuring more than 5000 and mak ing hundreds of others today bent every effort toward re lief of the sufferers. All available relief workers of the state board of health her were sent Into the stricken, area with medicinal supplies to tight disease, while doctors and nurses from other cities hurried to tb devastated sections to car for the injured. The greatest death toll, and the greatest damage, was in tn 80- mlle sector between Statesboro add Matter, where some 58 persons lost their lives and 100 others were injured. Untold destruction to property.

crops and livestock was left in the wake of the freakish twisters. Trees were uprooted, twtsted off. and dropped across highways, dis rupting communication and making relief work difficult. By GORDON M. SESSIONS1 Associated Press Staff Writer.

QUINCY, 111., April 27. Savd for the time being when the thregt-' ened big rise of the Mississippi failed by several Inches to reach Its predicted stage, the levees protect ing 170,000 acres of nearby lowlands still were standing today. They may go out before night and they may not go out at all. The river had apparently reached its crest. The stage, Increased slowly here during the night and was expected to stop at about S1.4 feet this morning.

That Is one-tenth of a foot above last Monday's stage, which broke all mod ern records. Acting upon orders from Sheriff Kenneth A. Elmore, most residents In the Lima Lake district had moved out today with their household goods and livestock, and many people In the Hunt, Gregory nnd Fabius districts were evacuating voluntarily, German Envoy Leaves Paris PARIS, April 27 W) The possibility has been advanced her mat jjr. ujaimar Schacht may bring back with him from Berlin next week a suggestion or offer which may be the basis of Saving the reparations conference front adjournment without having reached a settlement. Dr.

Schacht will attend a meeting of Retchsbank directorate at Berlin to Paris thereafter. It was as banking circles, awakened to the not at all Impossible that German probable effects of reversion Dawes plan, might evolv an offer acceptable to th Allies. Meanwhile he seems to hav made no move which would hav given the creditor nations a be)s for resumption of Judgment Affirmed In 15-Year Fight PHOENIX, April 870 After fifteen years of litigation during which time the matter has been before the supreme court, of Arizona five different times, supreme court yesterday affirttied a judgment of $18,750 obtained by E. R. Bryan and his wife, Julia Bryan, against the Inspiration Copper company for damages allege! to have been sustained through the death of their son, Young Bryan was killed in 1914, when a steel tower supporting A transmission line from the Roosevelt dam to the' Insporafeton property In Miami, Arizona, fell while the youth was at the top fastening a cross arm on.

Man Electrocuted For Attack On Girl HUNTSVILLE, April 37 0W Mathew Sanders, Negro, went weeping to the electrlo chair her early today for criminally assaulting a young white school teacher. His capture, trial and conviction required less than a week and he died for the crime less than month after Its commission. Hair Dressers Ban Shaving, of; Women's Necks BY A880C1ATED FHEB8 LEASED WIRE 10 TRIBUNE- IIEJNNA, April 17. Girli tojbe in fashion must no longer shave the nape of their necks but must allow hair to grow longer, io It can be worn either in curls or in fluffy style ys "World Communique" issued day by the International IT Dressers' Congreis now is ses- here. Then orgsniistion which -f esses to set international fa! in women's hair dress, says: "The new fashion which tluJrs (having the neck, offers the advantages of short hair permits thanks to the pern-wave, hair to be worn in cu The small head shall preeminent, but the hsir, i i roony with the present ment ef the entire fem letle, shell be worn more 1 This stylo is more im? nn dre r.r." ct American Refusal jto Insist on German, Russian Interpretation a e's I Adverse Comment There GENEVA.

April 27. (P)De-Kpite strong Gorman and Russian objection, limitation on trained army reserves was ruled out of the draft treaty of the preparatory dis armament commission today. The action was In line with the announcement of Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson, American representative, made at yesterday's ses-iiion, that the United States, In the inerests of making progress toward disarmament, would not insist upon trained reserves figuring in the treaty, although it still believed that they should. After clear) evidence that a majority of the countries at the conference favored taking no action on reserves.

President Loudon this aft-Ai-nimn rnlrl thnt Tin limitation of them could be lnvaged In the treaty. Maxim Litvlnoff, Soviet delegate, demanded a vote, but President Loudon refused this, as the question Involved a principle. He said that Jf. Litvlnoff would have a chance to vote when the text of the draft takes written form. It became certain that the conscription countries like France, Italy and Japan would win their point that trained rtHerves should not be included, when Lord Cush-endun, delegate of Great Britain, disclosed that Britain, like the United States, in the Interest of making progress toward disarmament, would not Insist upon the reserves being in the treaty.

Germany Disappointed at U. S. Withdrawal BERLIN, April 27. (P) Withdrawal of American objections to non-Inclusion of trained reserves as army effectives brought deep disappointment to the German government, a spokesman for the foreign office told the Associated Press today. He said, however, that on second thought it had been realized that only the Intense desire of President Hoover to bring the disarm ament question out of stagnation could account for the American aboutface, and for what appeared to be a cancellation of the good ef fect of Ambassador Hugh S.

Gib son's naval disarmament Speech, French Make No Comment on Change PARIS. April 27. UP) Although Paris morning papers carried Geneva dispatches relating Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson's acceptance of trained reserves with considerable display, there was little editorial comment today. Chicago Indicts 25 Under Jones Law CHICAGO, ATri! 27 (P) The first Jones law Indictments to be returned by a federal grand Jury here consisted of 13 true blllls yesterday naming 25 perrons, including one woman.

Mrs. Cecilia Black was held for the. grand Jury last month when a five-gallon can of alcohol was found in her possession. She told William Parrlllo, assistant federal district attorney, that she had been deserted by her husband and that she had turned to the sale of liquor to support heJ unco inmirii alter till ful court effort to compel her husband to support them. Most of the others Indicted were charged with operating stills.

i Elephant Refused For G. O. P. Jubilee RIPON, April 27 P) Rlpon needs a good elephant to lend pachydermal prestige to the diamond Jubilee of the Republican fiarty here, June 8, but John Ringing, the circus man and admirer' of Alfred E. Smith, was probably not the- proper man to ask for one.

After canvassing 'Wisconsin Zoos In vain, the committee wrote Ring-ng'rnefisLasslslants has made reply as follows: "Yes, we have elephants, but our elephants are very clubhy. If we sent one away he would probably run back to the herd the first chance he got. Since we'll be in the east then, he might run himself to death." Possibly you, reading this, may have an elephant. NURSE MAY BE HEIRESS. SAN FRANCISCO, April 27.

Mrs. Bridget Doherty, nurse, 2172 Green street, has announced she may be the missing heiress sought by Chicago authorities. Although she never lived at 508 Grove street, addreps mentioned by the Chicago police, she has lived near there and says she has many relatives In the eastern city. Oak Gavels Souvenirs of G.O.P.Birth YTfASHlINGTOiX, April Tptee handsomely carved gavelsmade from the oak under whicH the Republican party had its early beginning in Jackson, Mich, 75 years ago, were presented to President Hoover, Vice-President Curtis nad Speaker Longworth by a Michigan delegation An invitation Wi extended to the three to attend the of the 75th anniversary of the birth of the party at Jackson 15. a Police Smash Furniture in 55 Bootleg Places and Jail 03.iii Retaliation Drive for Attack on Officers CLEVELAND.

April 27. f4) Smashing their way through the city with an average of a raid every hour, police carried on a drive against bootleggers with the prediction that virtually no liquor would be obtainable by tonlsht. Two bombs, meant for Capt. William A. McMaster anA Sergeant Patrick J.

Holland, coupled with the slaying of two men suspected as hijackers caused the raids. In two days squads armed with axes and crowbars broke up the furniture In 55 places, arrested 103 persons and confiscated an unestlmat-ed amount of liquor. A fresh list of suspected bootlegging establishments was furnished today and the squads, under orders to smash the furnishings of every place entered, continued the drive which will amount to complete retaliation for the bombings when It is completed. Safety Director Edwin D. Barry said.

McMaster Holland headed their own squads, exacting personal vengeance upon the bootleggers accused of the bombings. Widow Given Major Portion of Estate SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. Mm Josephine Roller Hoag, widow of F.dward L. Hoag, real estate i i i iw) wapIt t' re celves' the bulk of her husband's estate under his will inea ior probate at Redwood City. Mrs.

Hoag is named executrix of the document, which disposes of property valued' ill excess of $10,000. Mrs. i Ufirkpi ntiri Mrs. Mau rice Kittiidge, sisters of Hoag, are bequeathed bUU ana tiuou, respectively. W.

B. and W. R. Hoag are tnun nml JKioo. re spectively.

W. B. and W. R. Hoag, brothers, receive suuu anu Flying Son Reaches Mother, III in 5.

F. SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. When he learned that his mother, Mrs. Curl J. Andre, 846 Halght street, 111 here, H.

H. Andre, of JuneauT Alaska, nothing daunted by tho 2000 miles that lay between, took an airplane to Seattle and reached Snn Francisco in two davs and a halt'. Tlie plane transported him from Juneau to Seattle in fifteen hours. He made the rest of the trip by auto bus. Physicians say that Mrs.

Andre will recover. Woman Sues to Recover Oil Stock SAN FRANCISCO. April 27. Mrs. Ethel L.

Countryman has filed suit to 'quiet title of 5300 shares of capital stock of the New Hope Oil company, and for $25,000 damages through loss of the stock, against the oil company, J.W. McDonald Edward T. Houghton, W. H. Dennlson and others.

She alleges she assigned her stock to McDonald, Hougton and Dennlson as trustees, io form a voting trust and since then the company refuses to recognize her ownership of the shares. COMjKGH 1IKAD NAMED LOUISVILLE, April 27 Trustees of the University of Louisville announced today the election of Dr: Ronald A. Kent, dean of liberal arts at Northwestern University, as president of the university. He succeeds the late George Colvin, who died almost a year ago. BIRD "ADOPTS" DRIVER SALEM, April 27 VP) A China pheasant which flew through the open window of his sedan and perched on the back of the rear seat during the 85-mlle ride to his home was being exhibited here today by W.

S. Flits. The bird will be turned over to the state pheasant farm. imately 100 telephone calls from residents of the suburb complaining of the "acrobatic." flying, a half-dozen planes took off from Brooks field in war formation. They returned a few minutes later surrounding Private Fietz.

He made a perfect landing. The private was placed under arrest by Major S. W. Fitzgerald, commander of the field, who said he would file court-martial charges against him. Fletz said the mere study of airplane engines had bored and that he had longed for the freedom of the air and the roar of an open exhaust.

have lost their lives while searching for him. He identified the body under the wing of the plane as that of Anderson, but said saw nothing of Hitchcock. Wheel tracks In the vicinity, he said, showed that the two aviators had desperately attempted to get Into the air again after they had landed. The ground thereabout, he said, was "appalling," adding "It would have been suicidal for another plane to 'have attempted, to land In the same place. Even If It succeeded It would be Impossible to ta-e eff sMni" 1ST 10 START TIME Clocks Will Be Set Ahead Hour for 25,000,000 Persons.

NEW YORK, April 27. CP) Beginning tomorrow and continuing until September 21, some' 000,000 persons will work, sleep and eat by timepieces that are an hour fast compared with standard time, and thereby will have opportunity to be outdoors longer in day- licht hours. Officially clocks will be set for ward one hour at 2 a. tomorrow, to begin the daylight saving season. Most persons simply win set their timepieces an hour fast before they go to bed tonight.

The cliunge will be made effective tn this and 185 other New York state communities, throughout New Jersey, In Phlln-dclpliia, many parts of Pennsylvania, New England and In Chicago and a few other Inland cities, throughout the province of Quebec and some cities of Ontario. The Wall Street district will eon- form to the summer timekeeping. This meanH that trading hours on the stock exchange will be the same by the clock as during the winter, but actually the opening and close will be an hour earlier. For the first lime the New York Central will operate the Twentieth Century Limited on daylight saving time. The Pennsylvania railroad has announced that the Broadway Limited will depart one hour earlier.

Despite a law in Connecticut for bidding other than Eastern standard time on public clocks. New Haven and Hartford have adopted daylight saving time. In New York state there is local option. Massachusetts provides for the change by statute. In Rhode Island each community governs Its own time.

New Hampshire holds to Eastern standard time with the ex ception of Nashua. Two cities In Vermont and three In Maine have adopted daylight saving time as havgTirvera4nJidlclilgan. Tlfroughout Europethe practice of setting the clocks ahead is general. Paris and London have been on daylight time for a week. Athens Club Swim, Show on Tonight A combined swim meet and beach sports apparel show la-to be staged at the Athens Athletic club this evening, an event In which bevy of pretty models from one of Oakland's leading downtown stores will vie with mermaids and mermen who are tp present a program of aquatic features.

Miss Lillian Fergus, national women's diving champion, is to give an exhibition of her skill. Miss Fergus will share honors with such noted paddlers as Dave Fall and Al White, former Olympic games champions, and Al Kallunkl, coach of the Athen swimmers, who will present hia pyrotechnlcal "fire dive." Several club championship races are to be settled this evening, it is announced, principally the 50-yard and 100-yard free-style events. Jury Calls Cliff Leap Death Suicide SALINAS, April 27. Death by suicide was the verdict returned late yesterday by a coroner's Jury sitting in the case of Mrs. Marlon Edwards Met calf.

Pacific Grove woman, whose body was found a few days ago at the foot of a 30 foot cliff. Edward Metcalf, hue-band of the woman, who was found to have died from a broken neck, was held by police pending Investigation on the theory that the case might not have been either -lntl er nilclda Well, that was adding insult to Injury." The young women, Mrs. George E. Koster, 2379 Virginia street, and Miss Alice Griffith, 158 Tunnel road, sped to the police station, signed warrants for disturbing the peace involving six collegians, and then, under fire of masculine smiles, used their feminine prerog ative and changed their minds. "They're good eggs," quoth the young women.

"We were angry at the time butwell, we feel better now." As a result of gojd behovlor the two young women will have their clothes and automobile cleaned at the expense of the students involved. And that wasn't all. The Phi Mu sorority, 2722 Durant avenue, has a bill for a broken window and damaged furniture, which the police say will be paid by members of Sigmi Chi fraternity. On the roof of the, Sigma Chi house was rigged up an Improvised catapult, consisting of the back of a c' lr and two pieces of inner tubes. Eggs were shot from the roof td the rear of the Phi Mu house.

Miss Mildred MHIiop, sitting on the sun porch, got one In her lap. The sorority lawn resembled the remnants of a rabbit hunt on Easter morn. Miss Mlllsop figured that as a prank egg-throwing was not so good and called police, but Phi Mu girls also refused to prosecute. Beekhuls. with two fraternity brothers, Floud Cerlnl and John K.

Carmlchael, were held temporarily at police station, hut later released without charges against them. This afternoon all students Involved were again summoned to police station and Sergeant Gabrlelson eon-ducted another seminar on ethics and good manners and the rspon-slblllty of students to their college. to Carry On Leprosy Fight 'About half of the fund has already been contributed. Construction of new buildings, of entire new units, and of one completely new leprosarium has started. Lavenson asks the assistance of every community organization and every publio-JdAlzen tpmake this campaign a success, not only financially but in the number of responses to the "It is a rare opportunity for Oakland to demonstrate to the people of this country Just how quickly we can respond to another's need of assistance," he said.

More than 33,000 "mercy letters" soliciting financial aid will be circulated here by the Chamber of Commerce. The move Is backed by the foremost figures In America, and on tho night of May 1, the results of the campaign, with a list of the larger gifts, will be announced by radio from a celebration dinner In the Hall of Nations of the Washington hotel, Washington, D. C. Gifts should ybe addressed to A. S.

Lavenson, care of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. Escape Tube By Italians leave, the craft again to mount to the surface of the water. The Italian method consists In Installing a large metal tube running through the" hatch over the torpedo room, the end of the tube within the submarine going Into a large topless steel box. When the submarine Is submerged air pressore of three atmospheres Is Introduced Into the torpedo room, preventing water from rushing In. The water comes through the tnbe but Is cheekee! wHen the steel bo BERKELEY, April 27.

"Good eggs" all of 'em men and missies, so what was to be done about it? The girls who were spattered and who indignantly hied themselves to police station succumbed to a barrage of student smiles and withdrew compyalnts. Sergeant William A. Gabrlelson presided at a conference, at police station that resembled a collegp seminar and dismissed his "pupils" with words of admonition and passing marks! In the words of William Beekhuls, Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, 2412 Piedmont avenue, three dozen eggs, not to say anything of countless gallons of water concealed in paper bags, were thrown about carelessly yesterday afternoon at Piedmont avenue and Banrroft way, to relieve the strain of preparing for final examinations. Thirty boys of Beekhufs' fraternity started the water fight. Their enthusiasm became contagious and the Alpha Sigma Phis and the Sigma Chis Joined In the merriment.

Then Beekhuls, who heroclally takes all responsibility for everything, got an Inspiration and hied himself to the neareHt store and bought eggs three dozen of 'em and the beBt In the place. "Well," grinned Beekhuls at pollen station, "there came along an open car with two girls In It. Gee, It was mich a good mark I couldn't let It. go. I aimed at the windshield and hit the steering wheel and well an egg Is an egg.

that's all. "I apologized as best I could and the girls drove way. Then someone else 'hurled a bag of water at the rear of their car. Funds Asked Gen. Wood's Aid In completing a $2,000,000 fund Is asked of ORkland, residents by the Leonard Wood Memorial Fund for the eradication of leprosy in the Philippine Islands, establish ed upon the death of General Wood to carry on the flghthe waged almost slnglehanded agaliretth scourge.

A. S. Lavenson, retired Oakland merchant, has been named chair man of the Oakland district to direct the work of the campaign, which has been delayed for the lack of an executive head to guide operations. He was appointed through the local Chamber of Commerce. "The need of a fund of this sort is so obvious as to make explana tion unnecessary," Lavenson said today.

"There are 12,000 cases of leprosy In the Philippines today. constituting a constant menace to tne ntlre Island population." "Leonard Wood himself although terribly handicapped for lack of funds, was able to cure 1000 cases of the disease. His work will be entirely lost for lack of a few dollars If this campaign fails." Submarine Is Perfected SPEZIA. Italy, April 27. UP) Catapulting members of trapped crews of sunken submarines through a metal tube Is a new and efficient method by which Italian naval experts declare they will be able to save the lives of sailors when an accident prevents under sea craft from rising to the surface.

Experiments were made today on the new Brazilian submarine Hu-maya, recently launched here. A diver was able to enter the submarine lying at the bottom of the harbor, converse with the crew and Plane Acrobat Shocks City Fliers Nab Amateur in Air RAN ANTONIO. April 27. W) A fledgling pilot. Private F.

F. Fieu, sixty-second service Brooks field, was shorn of hi wlhgs today, and housewives and motorists In Highland Park, a suburb, breathed a sign of relief. Without authority from his supe riors, Private Pietz, lacking a pilot's rating, took up an airplane for an airing yesterday, zoomed low over housetops, cut circles around chimneys, and even argued right-of-way with One driver was reported to have wrecked his car In dodging the plane. After police had received approx Southern Cross Fliers Tell 6f Searchers' Death SYDNEY, N. S.

April 27. OPh Captain Charles Kingsford-Smlth arrived at Richmond aerodrome today aboard the Southern Cross, completing a flight from western Australia. He and Ills three companions seemed little the worse for their harrowing two weeks In the brush near Port George, where their plane was forced down while on a flight to Wyndham, Captain Klngsford-Smlth said he flew about 16 feet, above the wrecked Kookaburra In which Lieutenant Keith Anderson and Robert Vttfheeek Were believed te.