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EBEfiLE'S REPORT
SHOWS WEAK NAVY
Ships Out of Commission for
j Lack of Funds, Operation
Chief Says.
The controversy over elevation of
guns on old battleships was reealled
today when Admiral R. E. Eberle,
chief of naval operations, made pub
lic his annual report. Admiral Eberle
asks for reappropriation of the funds
made available by the Sixty-seventh
Congress for arranging the main bat
teries of the older type battleships
of the United States.
Another recommendation calls for
the modernizing of six older battle
ships "if reliance upon these ships
as of the first line of battle is to be
depended upon.” Plans for the work
have been completed, the report add
ed. against the .hoped-for authority
from Congress to proceed. Further
recommendations seek to replace the
funds which will allow maintenance
to be resumed in the fleet which, the
report says, "is not better than sta
tionary." Admiral Eberle calls at
tention to the fact that the work dur
ing the last year has been accom
plished by the fact that salvaged
ships were used for repairs. This
source of material is now depleted,
he said.
Seeks New Construction.
The construction of two mine lay
ers and three cruiser submarines also
will he sought at the next session of
Congress, the report says, the bill au
thorizing this work having died in
the Senate after passing the last
House. Admiral Eberle pointed out
that the cost of upkeep for a ship
increased with every year of its age.
Only the most urgent repairs have
been made, he stated, and practically
every ship of the Navy has been at
the yards for repairs during the last
year and in some cases most expen
sive alterations have been made.
Boilers in such a bad condition that
they would have put the. ships out of
commission have been repaired tem
porarily on the battleships Wyoming,
Arkansas and Utah. These ships, with
the Florida, have been forced out of
action because the conditions have
since become so bad that they were
taken out of commission for safety
reasons.
Military Necessity.
"It has been clearly demonstrated,"
Admiral Eberle said, "that the re
boilering of these Important-qinits of
the battle line is a military necessity.”
Somewhat similar conditions are
prevalent among the cruisers, but not
■o widespread, the report said. To
conserve available funds, the Hamp
ton Hoads submarine base has been
decommissioned and the 27 subma
rines out of commission there trans
ferred to the Philadelphia yard, where
a total of 35 decommissioned under
water vessels have been grouped.
Scrapping of the vessels designated
under the Washington arms limita
tion treaty has been carried out and
the equipment from the old ones used
to repair the new. With this source
of material supply shut off, the cost
of maintaining the new ships will be
additional.
Five new submarines, provided for
under the act of 191 S, but for which
there has never been appropriated
funds, will be sought during the com
ing sesson of Congress, at least two
of them to be built as mine-laying
vessels and three of them as sub
marine cruisers.
Wants 88,000 Enlisted Men.
Discussing the personnel of the
Navy. Admiral Eberle says that "ia
order to carry out the operations of
the fleet based upon the naval operat
ing plans for 1926 provision be made
for 89,000 enlisted men of which 2.300
are required to man two new airplane
carriers and 600 are required for the
Increase to be made in aviation crews.”
Admiral Eberle sought in addition
the reconditioning of the cruiser
Frederick < former Maryland) as a
relief flagship for the flagships now
on the Asiatic and European stations.
In concluding his recommendations
as to the condition and needs of the
fleet. Admiral Eberle said, "The gen
eral board’s building program for the
fiscal year 1926 is strongly recom
mended for approval by the depart
ment and authorization by Congress.”
RITES FOR POLISH EDITOR.
Dr. Kulakowski, Delegate to Arms
Parley Died in New York.
NEW YORK, November 27.—Funeral
services for Dr. B. A. Kulakowski,
cdltor-in-chlcf of the New York Pol
ish Daily Nowy Swlat, will be held
today. Dr. Kulakowski died In a hos
pital Tuesday night. He was Polish dele
gate to the disarmament conference
In Washington.
He came to America 12 years ago
from his native country, where he
had a brilliant career as a lawyer,
winning distinction for his defense of
Polish revolutionists sentenced to
death.
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FAMILY QUARREL OVER NAME
OF MOUNTAIN AGAIN IS RAGING
Resolution of Senator Dill to Change Nomenclature
of Mount Rainier Stirs Battle of Writers
in Washington State.
Is it Mount Rainier or Mount
Tacoma?
Once more the family quarrel,
which for many years has caused po
lite visitors to the southwestern cor
ner of the State of Washington to
stutter whenever they wished to re
fer to the great peak that dominates
the landscape about Puget Sound, has
made itself heard across the conti
nent.
The question was taken to Con
gress last winter in the form of a
resolution presented by Senator C. C.
Dill to change the name "Rainier” to
“Tacoma,” and is now in the public
lands committee of the House await
ing report from the United States
Geographic Board. Now the Olympia
Chamber of Commerce and the
Thurston County Pioneer and His
torical Society jointly have issued a
Pamphlet which fairly snorts with
indignation at what P. ,D. Range,
secretary of the Pioneer Association
of the State, calls "the biggest land
grab since Noah homesteaded Mount
Ararat."
An Imposing list of chambers of
commerce, historians, pioneers, news
papers, Government officials and au
thorities on the Indian jargon are
quoted. Briefly, the case of the advo
cates of “Mount Rainier” is about
like this;
On May 8, 1792, Capt. George Van
couver made the following entry In
his diary, published in his account
of “A Voyage of Discovery to the
North Pacific Ocean and Round the
World":
"The weather was serene and
pleasant, and the country continued
to exhibit between us and the east
ern snowy range the same luxurious
appearance. At its northern extrem
ity Mount Baker bore by compass
N. 22 E.; the round snowy mountain
now forming its southern extremity,
and which, after my friend. Reap Ad
miral Rainier, I distinguished by the
name of Mount Rainier, bore N. (S.)
42 E.”
Calls It Tacoma.
Seventy years after that, in 1862, one
Theodore Wlnthrop made a trip by
Indian canoe from Port Townsend to
the Hudson’s Bay post at Nisqually
and thence over the Cascade Moun
tains to The Dalles on horseback,
after which he wrote a book. “Canoe
and Saddle.” published in 1563. after
his death, and in which be said; "Ot
all the Peaks from California to
Frazer’s River this one before me was
royalest. Mount Hegnier, the Chris
tians have dubbed it, in stupid no
menclature, perpetuating the name of
somebody or nobody. More melodi
ously the Biwashes call it Tacoma —
a generic term also applied to all
snow peaks."
Clarence B. Bagley, presidfnt of the
Washington University State His
torical Society, says; ,
"Until the appearance of Win
throp'a book. ’The Canoe and the
Saddle.’ Mount Rainier was the only
name in use in newspaper and more
serious literature. In 1868 a saw
milling town on Commencement Bay
was named Tacoma, and in 1873, when
the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany’ located its western terminus on
Puget Sound, it called its embryo
town ’New Tacoma.’ During the next
ten years, or until 1883, the use of
Mount Rainier was universal, collo
quially and in the press. That year,
between February and May, the news
papers of the city of Tacoma began
applying the name of Mount Tacoma
to the mountain, following the sug
gestions or orders emanating from the
office of the Northern Pacific Railway
Company at St. Paul. The demand for
the change of name has always come
from the officers of that company
and the people of Tacoma. It has
never been actuated by a desire to
perpetuate the original Indian names
of this region, but one word has been
singled out as a means of advertis
ing a particular city.”
Not Indian Word.
P. D. Range, secretary of the
Pioneer Association of the State,
says; “The word Tacoma in its pres
ent form is not an Indian word. The
letter *m’ is as difficult of pronuncia
tion to the Indian as the English ’j’
to the Scandinavian or T’ to the
Chinaman, and is rendered either
‘bh’ or ’p.’ Cowlitz, Klickitat and
other tribes, speaking a guttural dia
lect, call the mountain ’P-sk-houks.’
which is generally written ’Puske
house.’ **
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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,, D. C„ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1924.
A letter from John Muir, No. 61
Broadway, New York, also is quoted:
"In 1883 I was traffic manager of the
railway. Charles B. Wright of Phil
adelphia was a powerful director, was
President of the Tacoma Hand Com
pany and had succeeded In getting
Tacoma declared the official terminus
of the’road. It was Charles B. Wright
who with official power insisted on
called the mountain Tacoma, and it
was not until he had withdrawn from
the directory and his Influence passed
that ‘Rainier’ again received North
ern Pacific recognition.”
In 1890 the United States Board of
Geographic Names granted a hearing
on the subject. The late Rear Ad
miral Richardson Clover, secretary’
and member of the executive commit
tee of the board, wrote. In 1917:
"The founders of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad had made and were giv*
ing away a fine map of the north
country, and having settled then that
their road should terminate at Ta
coma, appropriated Mount Rainier,
which looks so beautiful from that
plaCe, and changed on their map the
name to Mount Tacoma, and it was
rapidly becoming fixed with the new
population, who naturally were using
the free railroad map. The Geo
graphic Board, in the course of its
work, took these names under con
sideration and without a dissenting
vote, reaffirmed the name Rainier,
given It by Vancouver when he first
saw »he mountain.”
Beer Story la Recalled.
Picturesque stories of how the
Board of Geographic Names was in
fluenced by the well-timed shipment
of a carload of "Rainier beer” have
added much to the enjoyabllity of the
discussion, but the pamphlet of the
Olympia Chamber of Commerce and
the Thurston County Pioneer Histori
cal Society rudely points out that the
company which made “Rainier beer”
was not organized until 1893, three
years after the hearing, and the title
’’Rainier beer” was not registered
until 1898.
The decision of the board, how
ever, did not crush advocates of
"Mount Tacoma.” A "Justice to the
Mountain” Club was organized and In
1917 a memorial was passed by the
Washington Legislature asking the
board to grant another hearing. Ad
vocates of "Mount Rainier" claim the
memorial was passed by the influence
of the speaker of the House, who was
from Tacoma and was opposed to the
real sentiment of both houses.
The board granted the new hearing
and again decided in favor of "Rai
nier.”
* The resolution presented by Sena
tor Dill Is the reply of the "Tacoma"
faction.
A "Declaration of Principles’’ is
sued by “Tacoma” partisans repre
sents that the discovery of the Strait
of Juan de Fuca and the Columbia
River, in 1789 and 1792, respectively,
by Capt. Robert Gray. American navi
gator, gave the United States of
America an incontestable right to all
of the territory around Puget Sound
and west of the Rocky Mountains and
south of the forty-ninth degree of
north latitude; that the decision of
the Geographic Board is a violation
of the Oregon treaty; that Capt. Van
couver was a British navigator, and
that his bestowal of the name "Rain
ier" upon the mountain, subsequent to
Gray's discovery, was a violation of
the convention entered into by the
governments of Spain and Great Brit
ain in 1790; that his taking posses
sion of the territory around Puget
Sound also was In violation of inter
national law. and that “United
States" sovereignty to the territory
of the State of Washington cannot
be fully established as long as the
name "Mount Rainier” remains upon
the great mountain of the north
west.
Roosevelt la Rooted.
They are also circulating stickers
with a quotation from the late Theo
dore Roosevelt: "Why should we
Americans abandon the splendid In
dian name, Tacoma, in trrder to call
our noblest landma'rk after an ob
scure foreigner whose only connec
tion with our history Is that he
fought against us when we were an
Infant nation?”
The answer, according to non
“ Mount Tacoma” supporters, is tjiat
“Tacoma” is not an Indian name, that
it never was the name of the moun
tain. and that there is no more oh-
YEARfNLISTMENT
AGAjNJSRAPPED
Adjutant General’s Report
Reiterates Objection to
’ Short Period in Army.
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Army objections to the law requir
ing that one-year enlistments be ac
cepted if the recruit prefers that term
rather than a three-year "hitch” are
reiterated In the annual report of
Maj. Gen. Robert C. Davis, adjutant
general, made public today. Expert
encc has "demonstrated conclusively
the undesirability” of such enlist
ments, the report declares, although
Congress failed to take action on
hills the last session.
"The service of a one-year man can
seldom be utilized to advantage in
the training of others.” Gen. Davis
pointed out, "for the reason that he
himself has not become sufficiently
well trained for the purpose. Neither
are these short-term men available
for service in oversea garrison*, be
cause of the time necessarily lost In
transporting them thither and then
back again for discharge within the
year.
Recruiting apparently would not
suffer through elimination of the one
year enlistments, the report indica
tes. In the fare of many handicaps,
Including the now modified legal re
quirement that parents’ consent be
filed with all enlistments, more than
77.000 recruits or reenlistments were
obtained during the year, and the re
port states It has been demonstrated
that the Army could readily be
brought to its authorized strength of
125.000 if Congress provides pay ap
propriations for that number.
I 10,000 In Array June 30,
The actual Army strength on June
30 was 140,000; but the average
number for which pay was provided
during the year was IXB.OOO.
Gen. Davis called attention to the
fingerprint records of the Regular
Army, now numbering nearly 5,000.-
000. filed and Indexed. During the
fiscal year, he said, 2,504 cases of
fraudulent enlistment were disclosed
by reference to these records, which,
also brought about 1,069 necessary
Identifications for other purposes.
Bodies of former soldiers have been
among these identifications, and civil
authorities have been aided in find
ing and apprehending criminals and
suspects in the same way, the Army
no longer affording a refuge for such
men under assumed names.
Jection to the name of "Rainier” on
patriotic grounds than to the many
other names of Englishmen of the
revolutionary period which abound In
America.
“Mount Rainier does not belong ex
clusively to any community," declares
the pamphlet, The State of
Washington Is thoroughly wearied
with this persistent attempt to name
this noble peak for publicity pur
poses; wearied with the repeated re
fusal of Tacoma to abide by the de
cisions of the United States Geo
graphic Board in hearings granted
upon its own request; wearied with
the campaign of fiction, misrepre
sentation and slander; and with the
narrow, selfish, intolerant spirit of
the movement. It asks the co-opera
tion of the press and the public of the
United States to put an end to this
unseemly thing.”
To spread the lessons of the bene
fits of milk to children, pupils In
London schools are giving playlets
written by themselves.
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UNDER HALIBUT TREATY
Director of California Laboratories
to Aid Investigation of In
ternational Fisheries.
By the Aasociated Fret*.
VANCOUVER, B. C.. November 26.
Dr. William F. Thompson, director of
the California State Fishery Labora
tories. hae been appointed director
of Investigation for the International
Fisheries Commission provided under
the halibut treaty between Canada
and the United States, it was an
nounced yesterday.
The commlosion also has invited the
following to act as a scientific ad
visory hoard: Prof. N. Cobb, Univer
sity of Washington; Dr. C.
Frazier, chairman of Zoological Uni
versity of British Columbia, and Dr.
A. T. Clements of the geological sta
tion, N'anlmo, B. C.
In a statement, John P. Babcock of
Victoria, chairman of the commis
sion’s sessions, emphasized the neces
sity for uniform regulations govern
ing the operations of nationals and
fishing vessels of both Canada and the
United States. The halibut catch is
worthy 810,000,000 annually, second
only in Importance to the salmon
catch.
Freeman Miller of Seattle is secre
tary of the commission, and Henry
O’Malley of Washington, D. C., United
States fisheries Commissioner, Is a
member.
DEFEND GEORGE GOULD
IN ESTATE LITIGATION
Counsel Produces Countersigned
Checks to Disprove
Charges.
By ili* Associated Pres*.
NEW YORK, November 27. —Ac-
counts purporting to refute
that the Jay Gould estate suffered
as a result of George Gould’s admin
istration as principal executor and
trustee were submitted by William
Wallace, the defendant’s counsel, at
the resumption yesterday of the hear
ing on the accounting suit of the
estate before Referee James A. O’-
Gormarb
.Chocks signed by George, his
brothers, Edward or Howard, and
countersigned by the youngest broth
er. Frank, were produced by Mr.
Wallace to disprove the contention
that George used estate moneys or
disposed of securities without the
knowledge of his co-executors and
trustees.
The hearing will be resumed to
morrow morning.
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KORETZ TO START
FOR CHICAGO TODAY
Creditors Delay Journey—Small
“Amy” Escorting Ac
cused Swindler.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, November 27.—Leo Ko
rol*. originator of the Panama oil
bubble. In which his friends and rela
lives invested millions, may spend
Thanksgiving en route from Halifax
to Chicago to stand trial if the orders
of State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe
are carried out. Mr. Crowe notified
his assistants in Halifax to start for
Chicago with Koretz today if they
cun do so.
Several actions of small creditors,
Including Koretz’s tailor, are delay
ing hts departure, local officials were
notified.
Koretz, when he does travel, will
be accompanied by what Is probably
the largest retinue ever to bring an
alleged swindler from Canada so the
United States. Three assistant State's
attorneys from Cook County, a de
tachment of Canadian officers, a num
ber of attorneys and a small army
of newspaper men probably will be
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