Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1922, Page 4

rg-- ASKSFORGIVENESS ATHUSBANDS BER Mrs.-Oscar Rosier, in Grief, Holds Baby to Face of Man She Killed. T MRS. OSCAR ROSIER. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January Kneeling beside the coffin in which lay the body of her hmsband whom, ‘with his stenographer, she had slain, Mrs. Oscar Rosier pleaded for for- giveness. As the tears streamed down her- cheeks' and fell upon the face of the man she had killed, and ‘Wwith her three-months-old baby son clasped tightly to her breast, she repeated over and over self-re- proaches for her act. “I didn’'t mean it, daddy. I didn't mean it. See, on my bended kuees 1| plead for forgiveness. Oh, what am 1 to do?" she cried. “L loved you, Oscar. God knows I loved you!" With hesitant_fingers, she caressed the cheeks cold in death and bent down and kissed him repeatedly. Then she held-the baby close, for the last time, to the face of his lifeless Yather. “Kiss dear daddy.” she said to the child; “you won't see him any more." After twenty miputes with the dead, Mrs. Rosier became so hysterical that "her guards were compelled to lead her from the room. She was taken direct- ly from the undertaking establish- ment to the county prison, where she is held without bail to await the ac- tion of a coroner’'s inquest. The in- quest is set for Friday. Mrs. Rosier was not permitted to take the baby with her to the prison, which she obtained permission to leave through a court order. Meanwhile, the funeral of Miss Mil- dred G. Reckitt, the slain stenog- rapher, was being held at the home of hler parents in another section of tire city. - - ¥ It developed that Rosier had His wife legally adopt William Oscar Rosier, his eight-year-old son by @ former marriage, in anticipation, the lawyer who flled the petition said, that if there should be any issue by his second marriage. all his children would stand on the same equality. SANTIAGO VETS TO DINE. BT SRS Society ‘Attahges for Dinner at Army and Navy Club Saturday. Members of the Society of the Army of Santiago de Cuba, resident or sta- tioned in this city, have arranged for a get-together dinner at the Army and Navy Club at 7:30 o'clock Satur- day evening, January 28. Membership in” the organisation ls made up of those who actually participated in the ‘campaign in Cuba that resulted in the surrender” of Santiago during the Spanisb-American war, in 1898. The get-together Saturday will be the first, so far as those are concerned who' constituted the once flourishing District of Columbia branch of the society, since prior to the world war. Steps are being taken to revive the District ‘of Cotumbia branch. The committee in charge of the get- together and the arrangements for the dinner consists ofsGen. E. J. Mc- Clernand, Col. and W. C. Brown and Lieut. Col. C. Fred Cook. Col. Brown, at the Army and Navy Club, is en- deavoring to Tocate ali members eli- gible to attend. —_—— The Mary Association of the United States,’ composed of girls and women ‘whose name is Mary. is preparing to send a letter of greeting to Princess | Mary, congratulating her on her com- i 26.— ing marriage. UR Specialties —Painting —Paperhanging —Upholstering —sou can always count on high-class workmanship. Geo. Plitt Co.. Inc.. 45425 | “BURCHELL’S” Bouquet Coffee Supetbly Flavored . 25c Lb. " Burchell’s 1325 F St. N.W. PERPETUAL BUILDING ASSOCIATION I I setting | Pays 6 Per Cent on shares maturing in 45 i or 83 months, It Pays 4 Per Cent on shares withdrawn be- fore maturity "-Assets More Than $7,000,000 Sarplus Nearing $800,000 | Corner 11th and E Sts. N.W. [} S0 W ke, MAIL-TAUGHT SLEUTH - ENDS CAREER AS FIRST VENTURE BRINGS FINE By the Aseociated Press. WEBSTER, Mass., January 26.— Erncst Arsenault {s back at a bench in Oxford, a correspondence school . detective, ' disillusioned by _contact with courts and with the state con- siabulatory. “'For weeks he had applied him- “how to be- Qualified, he thought, he wrote, under an as- sumed name, to Nils Peterson, postmasier at Doage, Dy ‘village, that he was a deteci who “always got his man and worked in secret”” He would turn master three months 2go if he was advanced carfare and - money enough to buy a revolver and & pair of handcuffs. Peterson is a bit of detective himself. He spotted Arsenault as his_correspondent, informed the state constabulary and the me- chanic-detective was locked up. Convicted of impersonating an officer, Arsenault paid the small fine, then took out of his pocket a diploma with seals of red and gold which attested his qualifications as a graduate detective. He tore it in small pieces in the courtroom, . remarking as he did so {hat his detectlve days were done. BUSINESS MEN PLA MIDWINTER DINNER | Board of Trade Membership Com- ° mittee Ready for Gala An- nual Event. At the meeting of the committee in charge of the fourth annual midwin- ter dianer of thé membership com- mittee of ¢he Washington Board of Trade last night plans were complet: ed whereby this year's function will far surpass any previous effdrts. The subcommittee on dinner, head- ed by E. J. Murphy, has provided & menu which will meet with the ap- proval o fthe most fastidious diner. The entertainment ‘committee, in charge of Fred J. White and George Plitt, has devoted weeks of time and effort to securing the best talent ob- tainable, and the committee promises an- entertainment unequaled in any previous_function of the Board of Trade. Solos will be rendered by the Washington Quartet (mixed). Miss Murray and Mr. Foster will give Spanish dances. Other features will be the Simpson ststers, in singing and musleal skit;; James K. Young and Miss Margarei | Gorman;_George O'Connor and Mat Horne, George Wilson, Miss Estelle Murray and ballet, old folks' songs, and rhythmic dancing by Miss Stein- berg. The grand finale, participated in by a dozen beautiful young wom- en, will be a fitting elimax. The committee on arrangements William Clabaugh, chairraan, will meet again Saturday evening to go over the seating arrangements. Mem- bers who have neglected to secure their tickets are reminded to send in their checks for reservations In order that they may procure desirable lo- cations. The speaker of the evening will be Representative J. N. Tincher of Kan- sas, as announced by George H. Mac- donald, chairman of the speakers' committee. WILL LECTURE ON INDIA. Man Who Traveled 16,000 Miles to Tell of His Experiences. Maynard Owen Willlams of this city, who recently traveled 10,000 miles through India in quest of facts and pictures for the National Geogrephic Magazine, will tell of his experiences tomorrow aftefneon and evening before members of the National Geographic Soclety at the New Masoric Temple. The, citadel of Golconda, where the KoNlinoor was polished; Ahmedabad, home city of Msahatma Gandhi; Jai- pur, where elephant fighting still survives, and the wives of the maha- rajah requirs an entire cemetery, where wild peacocks perch on the marble tombs and an elephant occu- pies a tomb iIn a place of honor alongside the wives—these and other fantastic phases of the mosalc life of these teeming millions wiil be de- scribed from personal observation. Motion. pictures and colored slides will show the beggars and the fakirs of India, the marble temples of Mount Abu carved to look like petrified lace; Lahore, where Kim amd the Lama set out together and Kipling worked as a oub reporter, and many other ap- parontly exotic scenes which are but commeonplace in the life of this unique land. DEFEAT MANAGER PLAN. SEDALTA.. Mo Jfapnnve 9% —The city manager form of government for Sedalia was defeated here by a ma- Juraty of lary-nve votes out of 5,151 of Woman Voters made a strong fight Career and $8.20 $8.2 a month for 120 months may. start a career for your girl or boy a few years hence, Start to- day with -a deposit of $8.20 (at the average age) and your child is sure to reap $1,000. If permanently disabled, the Continental Assur- ance Company makes- possible the continuance of your deposits. Should - aimed to give him, plus your savings balance credited to you here. Start today. Make your parent-dream come true thro; the Commer- Sreb ! YAV INGS s PLAN,_ - o "CAPITAL AND SURPLU! $1,400,000.00 > RESOURCES, $15,000,000.00 — \ 141h 4l G 1 up the man who robbed the post- l i MEMBERS OF =EXECU LEFT TO RIGHT: GARRETT JANUARY, MRS. ELIZABETH TOWNE, MISS NONA EROCKS. MRS. MARY L. BLTTERWORTH, JAMES A. EDGERTON. " THOUGHT CONVENTION HERE., ' REV, 1. H. SHROEDFR, CHARLES H. WATTS AND DAVID WALTER PYE. DIPLOMAS TO BE GIVEN TO FIFTEEN GRADUATES | R S ] Midyear Commencement zxercim] Planned at Business 1 High School. o i Fifteen graduates of the four-year class of Business High School will| be awarded diplomas at the mid- year commencement exercises at the ! school tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. the class night exercises being held last night. | A play, “Milestones,” written by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knob- lach, was a feature of the exercises. The theme of the play was the strug- gle of youth and genjus in the de- velopment of commerce from wooden ships to those of iron and steel. ln! the cast were. Trent Ainsworth, Marlon Weyer, Frances Burns, Joseph | Wagenheim, Estella Smallwood, Law- rence Connor, Evelyn .Davis, Pearce Smith, Zelma Allen, Maurice Enright, Dorothy Cohen, Leon Gordon, Hugo Thran, Edward Diener, Mildred Gruver, Pauline Shannon and Mary De Boskey. 5 Hugh Thran, president of the class. gaves an addroes. the class history | was read by Miss Pauline Shannon and “the valedictory was given by Miss Marion Weyer. The class song, written and sung by Miss Evelyn Davis, completed the program. Music was furnished by the Business High School Orchestra. The graduates are: Zelma Bessie Allen, Mary Frances Burns, Dorothy Cohen, Evelyn Davis, Miriam De Bos- key, Mildred Virginia Gruver, Pauline Claire Shannon, Estella Anna Small- wood, Marion Eleanor ‘Weyer, Law- rence Dennis Connor, Edward George Diener, Leon_ Stuart Gordon, Pearce Paul Smith, Hugo Herman Thran and Joseph Samuel Wagenheim. DENIES ATTACKING NURSE. James- Monroe, 'xqf;m Grand Jury, Admits Housebreaking. James A. Monrge, safter ‘pleading guilty to two’charges of housebreak- ing, pleaded mot zuniy to a charge of assault with the intent to rape, upon his appearance fn Police Court yesterday. Testimony developed that he had entered the nurses' home, 1716 F street, of the Emergency Hospital, January 11, and, according to a state- ment of Miss Irene Jackson, tried to assault her. 3 Monroe claimed thatthe tried .only to force her to tell him where she kept her money. He was held for action of the grand jury on a bond | of $5,000. On the two.other charges of housebreaking, which were both connected with his entry of the home, to which he had pleaded guilty, ad- ditional bonds of $2,500 each were ’fixed pending action of the grand ury. qu toBe _ Pleasant It is hard.to bepleasant when everything is not right. A number of women writers lately have called attention to the importance of foot comfort. Tight, uncomfortable shoes, faulty posture due to high heels, they say, have been the cause of lovers’ quarrels, marital unhappi- ness, blighted romance. 19 “A cramped foot makes a cramped disposition.” ¥ The American g(irl is wearing more sensible shoes. More of her time is spent in outdoor gimes like tennis and golf. She walks more. Her dis- position improves the more she avoids the ills and aches that go: with inactivity. gio AF B It is so much easier to be ina glusant frame of mind. when. your eet are kept comfortable and well in Cantilever Shoes. The shoe arch is flexible like the foot arch. The toes are not crowded.. The foot is so'free and easy that you farget you hoes on. Goad, comfortable are a great aid to a pleasant dis- position. Try Cantilever Shoes this week and enjoy Cantilever Comfort. All ‘men_admire a woman who-: is happy! * Cantilever Shoe Shop CI1319FSLNW. A) o ICVA i’FIRST MOVE TO REPEAL DRY AMENDMENT MADE IN STATE OF MARYLAND Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, January 26.—The first direct attempt to repeal the eighteenth amendment through the same legally constituted agencies which passed it came in the house of delegates yesterday when Dele- gate Fillmore Cook, Baltimore city, intreduced a resolution peti- tioning the national Congress to submit to the several states the question of repealing the amend- ment. The resclution was received without discussion and referred to the temperance committee, 6f which Mr. Cook is chalrman and on which the “wets” have a major- ity of one vote. Both Delegate Dimarco and Delegate Hiller, who have also introduced resolutions asking Congress to lighten the prohibition laws, are members of committee. ADVENTISTS TO MEET. Plans for the next quadrennial session of the Seventh Day Adventist denomi- natlon, to be held at San Francisco May 11 to 30, are now in course of prepara- tion. Officials from neadquarters of the. denomination at Takoma Park are pre. paring to transfer their headquarters to San Francisco for the month of May. ‘The convention will be the largest ever held by the denomination, and arrange- ments are being made for 6,000 to 7,000 members. The mission stations all over the world will be represented at the convention. Delegates have already begun to ar- -rive, the first to come being Elder and Mrs. F. H. De Vinney, from China, who are now visiting in Takoma Park. Eider A. G. Danlels, president of the general conference, wio resides in Takoma Park, will' be chairman of the conven- tion. Elder Daniels has been president of the world Seventh Day ,Adventist or- ganization since 1910. Q‘v 2N | Oy VAN, 2o LR A NEW 7 STy VA music was first brid quality- S v AT ANz 2k AN (S in competition with phonographs. Y7 2N\ T, ZAMYAN N\ VA L) » Y D) ZoAN (AN N S oY E era of Phonograph perfection began ten years ago with the manufacture of Sonoras. The gulf between mechanism and " 'The Highest Class Talking Machsne in the World This wondérful achievement received offi- cial recognitign at the Panama Pacific Expo- sition. Theré the “only jury which heard and tested all the phonographs”, awarded Sonora the highest score for tone quality, Yearby year,Sonora steadily improves,sur- passing even its own early standards. Today, 28 ever, Sonora is_the instrument instinc- tively preferred by discriminating buyers. /$10,000 TO BE SOUGHT FOR TRAVELERS AID Campaign Planned to Raise Need- ed Funds for Work During Ensuing Year. An intensive campaign to lay the work of the Travelers' Ald Soelety before the Washington committee, it was announced today. James M. Harrigan and James S. ‘McCarthy, yesterday were organizations and other bodies to out- line the need=. ! is needed for the ensuing year and the speakers will detail the manner in hich this sum is spent aiding those | coming into the eity by way of the| Unfon station in need. The Northeast Citizens’ Association is to give an entertainbent tonight | for the benefit of the Travelers' Aid Soclety. It will be heid in the Nonlhl east Masonic Temple, 8th and F streets northeast. | Mrs. M. F. Van Riper, executive sec- | retary of the society, 'was a speaker) last night before the Order of the ,|E.mem Star at Brookland. Miss Mary McGee, who went to the | Union station unknown to the society workers, to watch thelr method of the money to Mrs. Van Riper. Mrs. R. | Hoyt, New York, aiso handed Mrs. ! Van Riper a check for $10. She, too, had watched the work, without the knowledge of the workers. | Rosa and Fredia Helrsterich, sixteen | and elghteen years of age, from Ger-| many, en route to Houston, Tex., were Fiven ald last night. Through an in- terpreter their destination was learn- ed. and they were cared for until their train started westward. 1 Switzerland has an army of 200.000 atrong. ) T2 AN N\ Z2x) SN W N7 [ LZo\C w [ 37 AN T )4 Y - (¥ MODEL- N7, AN 7N D 5 ) ~\c IACVANS ged by Sonora tone VA TN (> o7 - @) SUE the world’s foremost 7 N IR = A/ 43 Ak 7cl NP~ 07 operation, collected $20 and forwarded |, Leaders of the Senate agricultural bloc.have agreed, it was announced, To press the Capper co-operative mar- immediately upon the disposal of the foreign debt funding bill now under consideration i The Capper measure, |{Which has been on the Senate calen- {dar nearly a year, co-operative | which ha public has on tio { heen dec'ded upon by the executive dicd at the expiration of the session |of Congress. The Capper measure authorizes the named 'formation of the co-opcrative-nusrke:- members of a committec to arrange.ing ussociations and preseribes that i for speakers to appear bafore civic:no member shali hold more ,vote in such a society, idividend in excess of 8 per cent per Ten thousand dollars, it is esfimated, ;annum may be paid. | ie keting bill by the Senate. prior for action marketing oceaslons, NDED THE NEW TO PRESS. MARKET BILL. is identical with measures ve been passed by the House which but than one and that no | — 15 R / THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1922 : | TIVE 'BOARD, 1. N. T. A, WHO ATTE RAIL UNIONS PLAN [*'¥oaeo o cEon LABOR COALITION feeting February 20 to Throw Support to Friendly Political Candidates. ¥ the Aswciated Press. o a report published today, plans for | coalition of all factors in. public| ife friendly to labor have been in- | stituted by heads of fifteen of the sixteen railroad unfons and invita- | *ions extended for a general confer- ! nce to be held here on February 20 | o perfect such an organization. ] The purpose of forming such ani umalgamation, according to the re-! ; sort, is to further the interest and to! © irow the support of labor to candi- ' lates for public oiice that are favor- to it, regardless of poiitical rarty. . invitations to attend the conference, t was said, have been extended to 1eads of tie soclallst party, the non- sartisan party, the farmer labor Jarty, members of the “committee of forty-eight” and the American Fed- eration of Labor, as well as other iabor chieftains. A_committee to work out the or- sanization of the coalition has been ippointed, says the report, composed of "E. J." Manion, president of the Telegrapherz Unlon, as chairmaa; warren 5. Sione. president of the Brotherhood of ' Locomotive 1eera; B. M. Jewell of the railw sloves' department of the Amerl Federation of Labor; Timothy Heale: of the ollers; L. E.’ Sheppard, pr dent of the Brotherhood of Rali Conductors: Martin Ryan of the Car- men's Union, and W. H. Johnson of machinists’ organization. Plans for the formation of the. coalition, is is sald. were brought up at the meeting of heads of the rail- at_which all were pres- | . G. Lee of the trainmen. / It was said that plans were dis-' cussed for the formation of a new | political party. but that these were | abandoned vhen opposition to such a | course was voiced hy the majority of the union heads present. RESTOBES POST OFFICE. In recognition of the place where he attended college. President Hard- ing yesterday !esued an executive.or- der restering the post office in the willage of Iberia, Morro county, Ohio. The office was discontinued in 1912. Engl- n- MEN’S WEA RIDAY— REMNANT DAY estimate ranging from 40 to por cent of oranges and 35 per cent of the lemons. agistant g CHICAGO, January 26.—According | cxchange.® - shipments for the season of about 25,060 9,500 carloads of lemons, comparcd @ with &, total of 60,000 carloads last season. to the lemon crop is because large areas of lemon acreage are in sec- tions wherr - temperaturas were not damaging and also a larger RUINED BY FREEZING Iiy the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Galif, January 26.—Posaibly half the orange crop in California and one-third of the lemon crop was lost in the three- day freesing lust week, according 10 an officlal preliminary estimate based on fleld surveys glven out Irere Growers' Fzchange. by the California Fruit “We have rcached a preliminary 50 sald E. G. Dezell, | manager of the “Th's would indicate Xchange. carloads or oranges and The lesser damage niage of lemon acreage was T protected by orchard heating.” o xperts s:id $700 was a fair price for a carload of On that basis the loss 00,000 crage trus fruit. b have (ourFurs Repaired and Rcmsdeled NOW 7This is the in-between season Ouravorkmen 1must be kept busy —and to uccomplish that we are offering special price reductions. Hring your furs here—our ex- perts will make them like new. This is an oppertunity seldom offered. Hudson Seal Coats, with col- lar and cuffs; beaver $225 or squirrel. Were Caracul Coats, handsome skunk collar and «d at $325. Now - Russian 8q tole, with 40 skixn at the botto: merly £210, % NEW ENGLAND FURRIERS 105 F St. N.W.—2d Floor wite New Willard Hotel. JAMIN SHERMAN, Prop. Franklin 6355 long. s Odd lots extraordinarily low priced for a ONE- DAY CLEARANCE. Item: will be on sale while the gmgfiu mentioned hold out. Prices are for FRIDAY. NLY. 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