The Washington Post
December 30, 1926

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The only newspaper in Washington every morning in the year. == The Washington po « not much ‘change | moderate west and | 41; lowest, 32. Weather—Fair today and tomorrow; | | Temperature yesterday — Highest, | Weather detalis on page 8. -_———- in teniperature; | southwest winds. _NO. _18. fat 09. ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON, ~ WASHINGTON: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926.—TWENTY PAGES COPYRIGHY, 1926, of BY THE W ASHINGTON PORT | co. TW O © ENTS. ee ee ee POST-SCRIPTS By GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN a “Errors, like straws, upon the surface | flow ; He who would search for pearls rust dive below. * * * George Washington was about to cross the Delaware. ‘I think,’ he remarked, “that I will use a boat and not a blueprint.’’ Whereupon he shoved off, and the rest is history. * 7 * lt must take quite a load of anx- tety of President Coolidge’s mind every time Wayne B. Wheeler drops in to assure him that he is still run- ning the government for him. - * The Pifflebund is chagrined to learn that the War Department has no censorship on preparedness. “A diller a dollar, A chemical scholar, > fod » » . Whyfor that grewsome grin?” “‘Because the alcohol brigade Has put the poison in.” Scared by the mortality statistics as the merrymaking mounts, asinine explanation that they’re go- ing to double the dose of poison in the gin after January 1, but that it won’t hurt anybody. But is Gen. Facing-both-ways kidding the drys or | inviting the wets to hop to it and break the Volstead act with punity ? im- John W. Davis reverses the Demo- cratic platform of 1924 on the rati- fication of the Lausanne treaty with So, then, he has read the | Turkey. platform at last! > ~ > * Disputing the claim of one of Wil- | lie Opshaw’s constituents with 26 children to be the champion father | Reuben Bland, of North Carolina, proud parent of 34, is on his way to Washington with The Senate will have to investigate this case. of his country, Mr. the evidence. * > * The charges against Mrs. Aimee by the district attorney; so it looks as though the country never would | nd t what thi | 7 die ” is case is all about | most acute diplomatic crisis which Mr | Coolidge has had to face—but there is' anyhow. . ¥ ¥ ~ We expect any day now to begin getting news dispatches about the Administration’s policy in Nicaragua | —if any—under an El Bluff date- line. Hot dog! Government scientists have now got the sausage under the microscope with a view to ascertain- ing exactly what's in it. staggers faithful savants — they are all to the mustard. ll ’ al these ror hurl’d; The glory, jest and riddle of the world!’’ = + . » Now that all aircraft will have to carry license plates and obey the parking regulations, Congress will have to provide Mr. Eldridge’s cops with telescopes. Something is al- death toll from Christmas | the prohibi- | tion enforcement people make the. cording to the consensus Semple McPherson will be dropped ee |ragua and assist him in NICARAGUA TESTS POLICY OF nUGHES ON LATIN AMERICA Traditional Support for Stable Governments Again an Issue. PRECEDENT FIXED IN OBREGON’S CASE War Munitions Furnished to Combat Rebels Against Authority in Mexico. U.S. Latin America Policy As Laid Down by Hughes “A government that has made a zealous effort to meet its obligations at home and abroad has been as- sailed and an attempt is being made to overthrow it by violence. It has appealed to this government for aid to the end that order may be re- stored and preserved and constitu- tional procedure followed. This gov- ernment can not be insensible to such an appeal and it has responded with its support in behalf of stability and orderly constitutional procedure in the best interests of all concerned.”—Statement of Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, De- cember 31, 1923. —_ By ALBERT W. FOX. America’s whole policy in Latin |American affairs; as initiated by Elihu Root and consummated by Charles Evans Hughes, now appears to be at stake in the Nicaraguan imbroglio, ac- of diplomatic no tendency to There well-informed opinion here is diplomats hastily prejudge the methods the Coolidge administration is pursu- which ing in this crisis—in some respects the manifest and among the diplomats which one of two definite policies the _ United States is going to follow. Either President Coolidge is going to a to ascertain | support President Adolfo Diaz of Nica- maintaining stability and constitutional procedure and thereby follow orderly and re- . | affirm the Hughes policy or he is goin Nothing | S + RGD —— to remain neutral and refuse support | to Diaz and thereby throw the Hughes . . | policy into the diplomatic scrap heap. | “Sole judge of truth, in endless er- | °°" . 4 | Diplomats say there can be no possible | middle ground in this matter. There is no such thing, it is emphasized, as being neutral and not neutral at the same time ahd there is no such thing as intervening on behalf of stability and constitutional government, in line with the Hughes policy, and at the same time not taking sides, as the White House spokesman expressed it to ways interfering with coolidgecon- | the newspaper men on Tuesday. omy. * We trust that Maj. Hesse’s plans | for that new $700,000 police head- | quarters are sufficiently farsighted to provide for an aerial traffic court on the roof, ” » © ’ Mussolini signs a new treaty with Germany, the old one having been mislaid some years ago. . * * - Secretary Kellogg’s Nicaraguan policy seems to indicate that he has the courage of Bill Borah’'s convic- tions. ~ ” » Frank O. Lowden thinks the whole Federal government needs reorganiz- ing, and if pressed could probably pick a good man for the job. © Science, which is generally two or three hundred years behind the more imaginative and irresponsible poets, now claims that some day it will be able to estimate accurately the size of the universe and get the low-down on the milky way. As Pope advised— “Go, wondrous creature where science guides; Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, ‘Correct old Time and regulate the Mount Prime Minister Bruce is slightly in error when he says that Europe has forgotten all that America did dur- ing the world war—you can't forget what you have never learned. The Administration’s mustard plaster on Nicaragua has served to irritate the whole of Latin America without producing much curative effect. Mrs. Schoemmel, braving the cele- brated cakes of ice as represented in the pictures, swims the Delaware at the point where Washington crossed, in 10 minutes 30 seconds. ‘Has all reverence for the Father of Sones ser been deotepyed? Hughes Policy in Peril. Apparently the first signs of criticism which were noted after President Cool- idge ordered American marines landed in Nicaregua have caused the admin- istration to recoil to such an extent that all the work which Charles Evans Hughes did to promote peace and sta- bility in Latin America and safeguard American prestige appears to diplomats to be ready for sacrifice. In other words, when the landing of American marines was hastily interpreted as a step beyond the Hughes policy, the pendulum swung so completely the other way that when one of the news- paper. man asked yesterday about the Hughes policy he was told at the State Department to “Ask Mr. Hughes.” Yet, curiously enough, the criticisms which caused such misgivings in offi- cial circles after the landing of the American marines assert that the Cool- idge administration should not depart from the policy which the United States government, chiefly through the patient and painstaking efforts of (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COLUMN 2.) 00 OR MORE KILLED IN SPANISH CYCLONES Towns Cut Off; May Have Been Wiped Out; Deaths From Cold Reported. (Special Cable Dispatch.) London, Dec. 29.—Reports here from Spain late tonight state cyclones have swept over the whole of Spain, causing terrific damage and loss of property. The Madrid orange crop, valued at $30,000,000, was lost, and 150 vessels sunk, with 50 lives lost, and it is be- lieved hundreds are dead from the cold. On the east coast the railway line is blocked, the lines being torn up by floods and landslides. Small towns and villages are com- pletely cut off and it is not known what is happening. It is thought prob- able that the whole population of some villages. might have been en wiped out. Late reports state Valencia, a lona, Castillon, Alicante, Cartagena and Murcia are entirely cut off from Madrid. Heavy snowstorms are reported wise over [Peewee pronounced desire | | | | | | | | ‘LIBERAL SPIRIT CLAIMED) | President Index to Today's Issue. Pages 1—Nicaragua Tests Hughes’ Policy. Evangelist’s Case to Be Dismissed. Wilbur Refuses Gleaves Data. Moral Disarmament Is Urged. Calles Refuses Oil Men Extension. Huge Graft Charged at Chicago. 2—Check on Missing Woman’s Ring. A. W. Patterson Heads Tall Cedars. | 3—Science to Learn Size of Universe. Says Europe Forgets America in War. 4—-Defense of U. S. Brings Shoute. Speedy Drinking Blamed for Deaths. 5—S OS Halts Radio Talk. Text of President’s Speech. 6-—Editorials. 7-9—Soclety. 8—Weather and Vital Statistics. 9—-Push Research Fund Work. Nancy Carey Service. 10--Magazine Page. 11-12-17—Finance. 13-14-15—Sports. 16—Radio and Comics. 17—Coming to the Theaters 18-19—Classified Advertisements 20—The News in Pictures. Citizens Ask Two More Judges. New D. C. Health Laws Sought. UALLES REFUSES TIME EXTENSION FOR OIL MEN New Law hens into Effect on| Saturday; Titles Held bi Frotected. — epee CO Mexico City, Dec. 29 Calles tonight (By A. P.).— declined to grant an extension of time on the new j | oil regulations which come into effect 1. He fusal in a dispatch to the New York | headquarters of various oil companies operating in Mexico, of these January made known his re- several companies having applied to the gov- ernment for such extension. The oil companies explained that they were unable safely to accept the | law as it stands because it does not pro- | tect properties acquired before 1917. The president’s refusal has also dis- rupted the hopes of the Mexican oil companies, which had presented an ap- | plication similar to that of the foreign | Their request for an ex-| companies. tension was based on the plea that it would permit time for amendments of | the law specifically safeguarding prop- | |erties acquired before 1917. : President Calles expressed his belief that “it is not the oil industry’s own | interest, but causes far distant, which | are the underlying motives for the at- | titude of rebellion assumed by some of the oil companies in complying with the law.” He further declared that the Mex- ican government had shown an ample liberal spirit in executing the law, which he characterized as a good law | and did not destroy quired rights. any legally ac- He regretted that the | (CONTINUED ON PAGE 9, COLIUMN 1) Ship Sends S OS Call. Adrift in Heavy Sea'| Miami, Fla., Dec. 29 (By A. P.).—The British steamship Clearton was re- ported in distress between 200 and 300 miles off the Virginia coast tonight in radio messages Tropical Radio & Telegraph Co. The captain said the rudder was gone and his engines had stopped. He jis firing rockets, he added, and is in need of immediate assistance. Superintendent E. F. Bourne of the radio station said there have been heavy seés and bad weather reported from the point the steamer gave as its location, latitude 38.5 north and longi- tude 64.40 west. picked up by the| EVANGELIST'S CASE IN KIDNAPING STORY a Keyes Says He Could Not Convict Mrs. Aimee McPherson Now. CALLS HOAX WOMAN TURNCOAT PERJURER ‘Inquiry Will Begin Today Into Charges Against Attorney R. R. Woolley. Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 29.—Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson will not come to trial in March as scheduled on the TAO os against her of faking her sen- ational story of having been kidnaped pa six weeks early last summer. | District Attorney Asa Keyes tonight announced he will move to dismiss the charges against her. The accusations 'of which the woman preacher will be 'formally freed include conspiracy to |defeat justice and to commit and) suborn perjury. Mrs. McPherson re- cently was bound over by Municipal | Judge Samuel Blake to face criminal | trial on these charges. “Dismissal of charges is necessary be- cause of the impossibility of convic- tion in the present state of the case,” | Keyes said. The prosecutor alluded to | the principal witnesses in the recent | preliminary hearings against Mrs. Mc- Pherson, Mrs. Lorraine Wiseman-Seilaff, as a “turncoat” and “a perjurer.” Drop Ormiston Case Also. Charges against Kenneth G. Ormis- ton, who was asserted to have been the woman evangelist’s companion for ten days at a time she stated that she had been kidnaped elsewhere, will also be dropped, Keyes indicated. Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, the evangelist’s mother, also will be freed of bonds. The latest sensational turn in McPherson case, which has kept the wheels of Los Angeles justice whirring | pastor disappeared from a local bathing ae last May 18, came on the eve of a fourth airing of facts before the | Los Angeles county grand jury. ‘meet tomorrow and hear the district at- torney’s Office present the case of Mrs |Lorraine Wiseman-Seilaff, who was a | with Mrs. McPherson and | | codefendant | Mrs. Kennedy in the recent preliminary | hearings, and who also was their arch | | accuser. Attorney Under Inquiry. The grand jurors also will investigate charges directed by Mrs. Wiseman- | Seilaff against Attorney R. R. Woolley, | |in a face-to-face encounter, | office tomorrow. cent dismissal, in Keyes’ Woolley, until his re- was Mrs. McPherson's | (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8, COLUMN 38.) ‘Malta Is Reached | By British Air Liner Valetta, Island of Malta, Dec. 29 (By | A. P.).—After a six-hour flight through wind and rain, the airliner carrying the British air minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, and Lady Hoare on a voyage to India, arrived here this afternoon. To- day's flight was from Naples, a distance | of about 350 miles. | The 12,000-mile air jaunt began at |Croyden, England, Monday. From | Croyden the liner flew to Marseilles, | } France, and thence to Naples. Japanese Prince to Greet President Coolidge Today Secretary of State Kellogg, Diplomats and Brig. Gen. Rockenbach Meet Chichibu on Arrival—Will Call at White House. Hastening from his studies in Eng- land back to the land of the rising sun, now draped in mourning for the death of his father, Prince -Chichibu came to Washington yesterday to pay his respects to President Coolidge. With his formal call at the White House today he will leave on another lap of his long, sorrowful journey across this country’s long stretch to San Francisco, whence he will sail for Honolulu January 4. He will reach the bereaved imperial household in time for his father’s funeral in Feb- ruary. The reception accorded him here was in keeping with the solemnity of his trip. No cavalrymen from Fort Myer were drawn up at the Union sta- tion at salute, nor was the Marine band present to render his country’s national anthem. His train came into the station at 4:35 o’clock from New York, where he arrived from England yesterday. With him were J. Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, who meets the na- tion's distinguished guests either on pleasure or sorrow bent; Ambassadcg Matsudaira and Hugh M. Wilson, an- other Assistant Secretary of State. Secretary of State Kellogg was at the station to meet the party, The prince, features that characterize the sons of the mikado, being attired in formal afternoon frock with a mourning band around his sleeve. With Baron Hayashi, former Ambassador to England, who is now acting as his guardian, the prince was escorted through the President's waiting room and placed immediately in @ car and whisked away to the em- bassy. Thirty or forty members of the diplo- matic corps, attired jn formal clothes, made up the party which greeted the prince at the station. Brig. Gen. S. D. Rockenbach, commander of the Wash- ington district, represented the mili- tary. The varicolored uniforms of the military attaches of the various nations lightened the somberness of the diplo- mats’ attire. More than a hundred persons stood in the station concourse and outside the President's waiting room, but there was no demonstration because of the solemnity of the occasion. Newspaper photographers refrained from taking pictures at the request of Mr. Wright. At the embassy the prince was re- ceived quietly and this quiet simplicity is to be the note of the royal person- age’s brief sek here. He was when ‘il hope for (OMTINUED ON “PAGE 4, COLUMN 5.) school at Oxford imperial father , 0 10 BE DloMIooED the in strange channels since the woman The grand jurors are scheduled to | ‘ , REQUEST OF HOUSE FUR GLEAVES DATA REFUDED BY WILBUR Compiled by Fleet Head in Regard to Possible Pacific “War Scare.” HIGH POINT IN TRIAL OF FALL AND DOHENY Belligerent Attitude of Japan Denied by Navy Officer, McClintic Says. (By the Assoclated Press.) Secretary Wilbur yesterday flatly turn- ed down a request by members of the House naval committee for a copy, to be kept in confidence, of the report on possible dangers in the Pacific ocean area, made several years ago by Admirai Gleaves while in command of the Asiatic fleet. Representative McClintic, of Okia- homa, a Democratic member, said |Chairman Butler, ac his suggestion, | made the request on the day of the pate ittal of Albert B. Fall, former In- terlor Secretary, and Edward L. Do- heny, wealthy conspiracy in the leasing of naval oil lands, with which was linked the con- struction of storage in Hawali. During the trial defense counsel em- phasized the report as one of the reasons prompting the: leasing of the Elk Hills reserve in California to Do- heny and, although Secretary Wilbur at that time refused to make the report public, frequent reference was made to the document as conveying a. warning of a grave national emergency in the Pacific. Unwilling to Give Report. McClintic, intimated that however, give out the report for fear it would not substantiate its oil leasing policy “I was adviséd some time ago, he as- serted in a statement, “by a high rank- ing officer in the navy that these so- |called Japanese reports contained no information which would show a belli- | gerent attitude on the part of Japan, and that the Department could not afford to permit any member of Con- gress to see these reports for the reason they would show that the secret policy |of the navy with respect | leases and the building of tanks was not justified. He said in his opinion the | scare” “Japanese now is put forth to promote a new naval shipbuilding policy. “It will be remembered that this re- | port,” he continued, “has been | the excuse for of our naval reserve oil lands and the construction of the oil tanks in Hawaii. | It also will be remembered that one of | the jurors gave out a statement in which the Japanese scare and this re- port were given as a justifiable reason | for the verdict which exonerated them | from any wrongdoing.” made Should Be Informed. McClintic contended the naval com- | mittee was charged with the responsi- bility of maintaining the navy and should be informed on reports “rela- tive to the attitude of other nations.” | Secretary Wilbur said the request for the Gleaves report came from Mc- Clintic and not the committee, but added that even if the committee | should so request it also would be re- | fused. However, he informed McClintic of his willingness to appear before the | committee for questioning on the doc- ument. In his statement McClintic also said | that ‘certain officers in the navy pur- | posely deceived the American public” in reports on airplane bombing tests on the battleship Washington, but he as- serted he was ready to vote for the 10 new cruisers proposed in the Butler bill now pending “provided it can be shown that Japan assumed a belligerent atti- tude” when the Gleaves report was made. Sole Survivor of 22 In Wreck Ends Life Berlin, Dec. 29 (By A. P.).—The sinking of the steamship Aszoria—na- tionality not given—off Kavarna, Rou- mania, in the Black sea, with the loss of 22 passengers and crew, is reported in a Bucharest dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger. The only passenger to reach shore was a teacher from Constantinople, but when he learned that his wife, three children and mother were drowned, he shot and killed himself. Previous dispatches, which came to the Paris Midi by way of Berlin, re- ported that the Astoria was an Ameri- can steamer. Only two American steamers named Astoria are listed in the shipping register and only one of these is in European waters. This ves- sel arrived at Liverpool December 3 and, under charter of a Boston firm, is loading at an English port. Fall Is Improving, Physician Announces El Paso, Tex., Dec. 29 (By A. P.).— Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, who is ill at his home here from pneumonia, was reported improv- ed ore 2 Bostact said the condition of the a t was easily be oil man, on charges of the Navy Department was unwilling to| to the oil ; the secrecy in disposing | PRESIDENT URGES MORAL DISARMAMENT TO. INSURE PEACE TO ENTIRE WORLD POINTS STRESSED BY COOLIDGE AT TRENTON BATTLE MEETING | tive armaments. fear. fight each other. independent action. tending in that direction. people dominate them. tion. Peace can not be advanced by a return to the policy of competi- , While an adequate army and navy any effort to militarize the nation should be opposed. Truth and faith and justice have a power of their own in which the United States is justified in placing a very large reliance Altogether too much of international relationship is based on Nations rejoice in the fact that they have the courage to The United States is strong enough and brave another domination of the world by the military spirit through National wealth in the past has first led usually to luxury and ease and later to decline and decay. The class of idle rich in this country has dwindled to small proportions that it is no longer worth noticing. Fortunes do not dominate the people in this country. The political boss reigns when the citizen abdicates. many palliatives for the condition that develops him, but only one fundamental remedy—the influences of religion and educa- is favored, enough to resist We do not yet appear to be such The There are cum Ur oul 000,000 1) GHARGED AT GHIGAGD It Must Be Reckoned With in Politics. CONVICTIONS ON INCREASE Chicago, Dec. 29 (By A. P.).—Graft estimated at $30,000,000 a year in the Chicago district comprising the nine- was remarked upon as a | reckoned with in politics” | Olson, Federal district attorney, in re- | four years of office soon to end. ‘month by the American | porting to Washington today upon his | +, | The Volstead act and the possibilities | the final observation that “the manu- can be stopped in this district when- ever the government receives proper co- officials.’ The permanent injunction he ‘charac- | terized as prohibition’s sharpest weapon, | and said that while there are only three Federal judges in the district to handle all litigation, there are in Chicago fif- teen times that many equally capable |of directing padlockings. | Mr. the past four years, a larger number than any other prosecuting office in the country, and had set another record in the number of places padlocked by injunction for one year. The district attorney disclaimed that prohibition had made officials turn crooked, but had opened up new sources of revenue for the same grafting offi- cials who always protected gambling, prostitution, dope peddling, thievery and other forms of crime. “Tt has been estimated that the graft collected from booze, vice and crime (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 5.) Two Gasoline Stations Held Up; One Nets $60 Walking boldly into the brilliantly lighted gasoline station on the south- east corner of Sixth and Rhode Island avenu? northwest last night a lone negro held up Raymond C. McGee, an employe °t the point of a pistol and escaped with approximately $60 in bills. Another armed negro, about half an hour later, did not fare so well when he walked into the gasoline station on the southeast corner of Fourth and Florida avenue northeast and attempt- ed to hold up William F. Winters, the manager. Winters closed with the man and in the scuffle the pistol was knocked from his hand after it had been discharged once without effect. The negro ran, leaving his hat as he left. MRS.LINCOLN JOHNSON IS WED TO RANDOLPH Marks Third Venture Into Matrimony of Emancipator’s Granddaughter. Mrs. Jessie Lincoln Johnson, grand- daughter of Abraham Lincoln, and Rob- ert John Randolph, a member of the famous Randolph family of Virginia, were married here Tuesday, it was an- nounced last night. . Mrs. Johnson, one of the two daugh- ters of Robert Todd Lincoln, the Eman- cipator’'s son, has been living at 2908 N street northwest, with her two chil- dren, Mary Lincoln Beckwith and Rob- ert T. Lincoln Beckwith. The marriage Tuesday was her , her first hus- band’s name being Beckwith. Randolph, a consulting engineer, di- vides his time between New York city and his estate in Middlesex county, Va. This is his éecond venture in matri- mony. The only information that could be gained at the home of the bride last night was that the wedding had taken that ee ee ee ee ‘beneymoon. of enforcing it were dilated upon with | | facture and sale of liquor as a business | YANKEE DRAW’ OOM SEEN IN AADIO PHONE U. S. Attorney’s Report Says Cost of New Yorke to-London| service Is Expected to Speed Up Talking. $75 IS MINIMUM EXPENSE New York, Dec. 29 (By Science, by means’ of the radio tele- phone, bids fair to put the | teen northernmost counties of Illinois! drawl” out of existence. “force to be | by Edwin A.| and Telephone service between New York London to be established Telephone & legraph Co., British postoffice, $25 minute with a three minute minimum will cost a charge. words to three minutes, which speaking, would be charged only 18% cents a word. This with is fast compares a acy from local law enforcement! 20 cents a word charged by both com- | mercial cable and radio companies for ! | telegraph messages. A person with however, speaking as little, say, as 200 would be the words in his allotted time, assessed 3744 cents a word. dicates, at least to any | mind, that the Yankee drawl is doomed. Olson said his office had con- | victed more than 6,000 bootleggers in| Officials of said today the success radio telephone seems from a scientific standpoint if the con- stant experiments that have been made Saturday and Sunday each week tor many months count for anything. the American of comm: to be and New York at a time may and be in between London only one circuit operation. Radio engineers say the public will find that the human voice coming over land lines and radi» will sour Clearly as the average land line nection. There are variations, static, but the voice is always audib.e. Experimentation is under way to ex- tend the new service to points outside of New York and London, but the com- mercial success of the New York-Lon- don service will in large measure de- termine what extension of the trans- atlantic telephone will be made. Chicago already has heard London by the new radio telephone and San Fran- cisco is deemed a commercial probabili- ty if the service catches popular fancy. Atmospheric conditions permitting, the new service will obtain between 8:30 a. m. and 1 p. m., New York time, or from 1:30 p. m. to 6 p. London time. con- m., She Swims Delaware In Washington’s Path Trenton, N. J., Dec. 29 (By A. P.).— Mrs. Charlotte Moore Schoemmel, of New York, holder of numerous women’s long-distance swimming records, today swam the Delaware river at the point where Washington and his_ troops crossed 150 years ago, 8 miles north of Trenton. Swimming against a 10-mile current with ice fioating about her, Mrs. Schoemmel made the distance of about one-third of a mile in 10 minutes 30 seconds. ' Coolidge Is Imperiled As Flags Catch Fire Special to The Washington Post. Trenton, N. J., Dec, 29.—President Coolidge narrowly escaped being burned tonight wh*. some flags on the platform of the Pennsylvania railroad station caught fire as he de- scended from the train. The flags caught fire from a mag- nesium flare used by a newspaper photographer. The President stepped back hastily as the flames burst almost in his ‘face. | “Be careful,” the President said to a soldier who was trying to smother the fire. y A. P.).—j| “Yankee | next | in conjunction with the | Thus the person speaking 400 | | thirteen Which in- | economical | |the Stacy-Trent hotel upon arrival at _| the company |, rcial | assured | _mediately after the banquet | ule Lhe | service permits a two-way conversation | | people due to | clared | armament” “I will,” answered the soldier. ‘Supplemental Treaties - Declared Necessary | in Limit on Arms. FAVORS ADEQUATE NATIONAL DEFENSE But Executive Says That He Is Opposed to Militarizing Country’s sitehin -WASHINGTON’S IDEALS COMMENDED TO NATIONS a Asserts Sacrifices Must Be Made to Save Peoples From Slipping Back. i | Trenton, N. J., Dec. 29 (By A. P.).— The ideals and faith that led George Washington to victory in the Revolu- tionary war were held up by President Coolidge tonight as guides to nations of the world in their quest for lasting | peace In his address concluding the Ses- |'quicentennial celebration of the battle of Trenton and Washington's crossing of the Delaware, the President declared | this country and others must be pre pared to make the same sacrifices in |behalf of amity that Washington and ‘the colonies made to establish an in- | dependent America. | The world has been striving toward by seeking to rely on reason 'rather than force, Mr. Coolidge said, but “‘we are in danger of slipping back into the old formula.” | peace be he added, Made. “establish the principle unless we are willing to |'make some sacrifices, unless we are | willing to put some courage into our | convictions.’ Speaking for America, the President |declared he believed “we are strong enough and brave enough to resist an- |other domination of the world by the |military spirit through our own inde- pendent action.” The address, which was broadcast by station WOR of Newark, was heard in hall by of- representatives of many of the Original States With Mre. Coolidge the President was escorted to Sacrifices Must “We cannot.” new Yankee draw! | the banquet ficial governors or station, where a special reception committee greeted them. Mr. Coolidge arranged to leave for Washington im- , the sched- calling the Capital for arrival in early tomorrow morning. Urges Supplemental Treaties. Presenting President Coolidge to the Trenton Historical society, which was his host, former Gov. E. C. Stokes said it of America that in selecting its President from among the we net only its chief is a “privilege honor s |executive, but love the man.” Referring to the recent interview with Mr. Coolidge by Bruce Barton for ‘the Associated Press, Mr. Stokes de- President “revealed a humanity of the inner self and a con- sideration for his fellows that makes the whole world kin.” Before he began his address President Coolidge was presented with a gold key to the city by Mayor Frederick M. Don- nelly. the Touching on the value of “moral dis- to world peace, the Presi- dent emphasized the need of supple- mental international treaties limiting the “use and size” of armaments. As- serting that a return to the policy of competitive armaments could not ad- vance the policy of peace, Mr. Coolidge continued: “While I favor an adequate army and navy, I am opposed to any effort to militarize this nation. When that method has been worked out to its logical consequences the result has al- ways been a complete failure. We can render no better service to humanity than to put forth all our influence to prevent the world from slipping back into the grasp of that ravaging system. Truth and faith and justice have @ power of their own in which we are justified in placing a very large ré- liance.”’ President’s Address at Trenton. Fellow Countrymen: The season is now well advanced in the celebrations of the 150th annie versary of the opening events of the American revolution. The year. of 1925 marked the passage of @ century and a half of time from the days of Lexington, Concord, and Bun- ker Hill, and the assumption by Wash- ington of the post of commander-ip-. chief of the Continental army at Ay Og bridge. During the following March of pe 1776 in forcing the British to e Boston he secured his first mili success, In the following July t Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress at 6: | Philadelphia. The early summer — ’ nearly 30,000 British, under the © mand of Sir William Staten Island. Coming some of these forces on and and again at White ite Plains, 1 (CONTINUED ON "PAGE 5, €