Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1923, Page 19

{ ‘ one of the r REAL IN MURDER TRIAL | Battle Renewed Over Degree of Crime Involved in Bal- lantyne Slaying. Br the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 9.— Tienewal of the legal battle to de- termine the degrec of the charges ngainst Marriner A. and John M. Browning, jr. who are held for the slaying of Benjamin F. Ballantyne his home here April 9, loomed today after announcement last night by District Attorney E. A. Rogers he would file new charges of degree murder against the two defendants, at at first Second Degree Charged. Brownings, at liberty under of $25.000 cach, were bound to the district court May 12} arges of second degree murder City Judge Noel 8. Pratt, who ided at the preliminary hearing. Judge Pratt held that no evidence Tiad been Introduced by the prosecut- ing attorneys to justify charges of first degree murder. which had been filed by County Attorney Arthur E. Moreton, District Attorney Rogers stated emp ically last night that the new first degree murder charges would be filed some time today. He als O that no apt to re-arre: he Brownings a decision by the district as to the legality of the move Defense attornevs last night made Known their intention to seck ruli fmmediately after the charges filed. The bond over on e by » 1 Says Law Permits Action. Utal laws relative to informat according to the district attor permit him to file any charge which %1« contained in the original com- plaint on which the preliminary hear- i is held wnings, who are { cousins, wers imprisoned in the Couniyjail for more than a month or the county attorney had sworn out the first degree murder informa- tions Ballantyne, who teller and brother-in Rrowning, ir.. w library of his home during cation, the prosecution alle «the Brownings, who had sought ‘take Mrs. Ballantyne to the ho her father, John M. Browni famous gun inventor. at Ogd. GUSHER MAY ENRICH | UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Well Near San Angelo Also May Put Bankrupt Railroad on Its Feet. 1s a former bank w of John M t in the 1 alter- . with to - 4 By tie Acsocinted Press SAN ANGELO. Tex wildeat well Santa thick, green oil In Un and Kansas City, Mexico and Orient railroad territory here. is due to flow Sunday and untold riches await the vniversity, the Orient, long in re- ceivership, and a little company, the | Texan Oil and Land Company, scouts of large oil companies believed. If it proves the field, the Universi \ of Texas, located at Austin, will be chest, if mot the richest, schools in the world, the scouts de- | clared. The Ortent raflroad will be 1 out of receivership, they added. Santa Rita gushed high over the for_thirty-nine minutes this afternoon. e scouts pronounced it the first real oil well in Texas west of Ranger. The flow was the fifteenth time the well has spouted oil over the derrick since the bit pierced the sand on May (28. The well proves the 1 Texon Oil and Land Company, owns the well, and gives it title to the lease of seventy-four sec- tions of university land in Reagan county, all adjacent to the well. The well is throwing from 100 to 300 barrels of oil at regular intervals of about twenty hours. A report of the Guality received today showed it to be of .36 gravity, The well IS now at a depth of 3,050 feet FESS PAYS TRIBUTE | * 70 ADMINISTRATION| Points to Two Years of Accom»: plishments as President Reaches Half-Way Post. June 9—Thel Rita. gushing | ersity of Texas S the Associated Press. SOUTH B D, Ind., June 9.—"Presi- dent Harding is at the half-way post in his administration, the record is made up and the public must judge! 1ts success by what has been accom- | plished,” declared United States Sen- ator Simeon D. Fess of Ohlo. in an address at the banquet of the Indlana | &iepublican Editorial Assoclation at the closing s ion of the midsummer méeting here. “Unlike the usual administration, charged with merely continuing a golng concern,” said the Ohio sena- tor, “Mr. Harding had to undertake the work of correction and readjust- | ment incident to a war which totally dislocated matters, political, economic and industrial. “The President's sincere regard and strict adherence to our consti- tutional system of co-ordinate de- partments of lawmaking. law inter- Jretation and law enforcement open- i a way for a character of team- work never before excelled. Pledges of platform were respected and prob- lems of adjustment were met and solved by the closest co-operation of President and Congress. True, such problems as the shipping bill failed of becoming & law, but the Sixty-sev- nth Congress ended after having vritten the most stupendous volume of legislation ever written into law. “The people will judge him and his work by these results. What- ever may be the verdict, the achieve- ments challenge the records to pre- wim ESTATE. Typical brick home with sylvan sett merly of Pittsburgh, nt 30th street an SPUR GRL BANDT | HUNT WTHSS 000 Masonic Lodges Offer Big: Rewards for Capture of Tesmer’s Slayer. By the Asociated Press CHICAGO, June 9 5,000, offered by two Chi lodges, spurred the authori- 1y in their search for the girl | bandit-slayer of Richard ¢ prominent Chicago insurance man Tesmer's funeral day. Immediatel the two orders Rewards total- was held yester- after the servic net and appointed they plan to enlist the aid of asso- ciate organizations throughout the nation in the search. Mrs. Tesmer, who band last Tuesda: girl shot him after robbing him with the aid of a male escort, collapse at the funeral and was unable to interview police suspects during the | remainder of the day. She says she he able to identify the girl by her blue eves and the fixed smile| which she wore during the hold-up. Four suspects are being held to- | day although the police have ad- mitted they are “working in the darik.” Anna Senback. y school student of sweetheart. John to be arrested. were tuken by th police _on an ‘anonymous telephone tip. The girl flippantly discussed the | e with the police, pointing to the her eves were brown in- f the supposed color of those| layer. | 2 the police were notified of | the arrest at Channing. Mich., of Mrs Gertruda Getson, whom they wish to question The fourth suspect, Irving Schli was arrested in the viclnity shortl after Tesmer was slain and is being held for investigation. NEW THEATER CHAIN. Erlanger and Shubert Seek Stand- ard Prices for Movies. i NEW YORK, June 9.—Plans for the formation of a chain of Erlanger and | Shubert Theaters Into a new circuit to be devoted exclusively to motion picture spectacles at theater prices were announced by A. L. Erlanger. Big productions which cost from $500,000 to $1,000.000 can no longer be made at a reasonable profit, Mr. Er- langer said, unless there is a string of first-class theaters where they can be run at standard box office prices. was with her ung former high inston, and her chatz, the latest SALE Business Zone On Irving St., West of 14th. A very attractive and un- usual offering. 3 stories, de- tached, brick and frame, con- taining about 12 rooms and 2 baths. All Modern Improve- ments. Lot is 50x200 ft. Price, $25,000 THOMAS J. FISHER AND COMPANY, Inc. 738 15th St. NW. Main 6830 GQASS sent another two years of accom- ishments which will approach what has_been. done from March 4, 1921, to March 4, 1923 H GIRL ARTIST WINNER. Elizabeth, N. J., Student First of v Sex to Win Chaloner Prize. NEW YORK, June 9.—Miss Frna Junge of Elizabeth, N. J., was award- ed lirst prize in the competition for the John Armstrong Chaloner Paris 1'vize Foundation by an art jury to- day. She will receive $1,200 a year five vears while studying art| Miss Lange is a student of Art Schools of the National Academy of Design. H Miss Lange was said to be the t woman to win the Chaloner Y She took the honor away from three men who had been chosen with her from many contestants to exe- cul a painting for the final prize. laxwell B. Starr's picture, “Knowl- edige” was a close second to Miss J.ange's ‘The Lament.” He was awarded a consolation prize of §200. SIXTY years’ expe- rience in the manu- facture and distri- bution of glass for building purpos exclusively assures you of satisfaction in all dealings with this company. Founded 1064 HIRES TURNER GLASS COMPANY ‘Washington, D. O Ressiya, Va. - THE EVENING :STAR, *LEGALTHTLOONS | Becuiful Home in Massachuseus Asenue Park AN IS SOUGHT etts Park being completed for Perry O. Laughner, for- hner hax near| an acre of ground. |“Senator” Felton, 88 Tomorrow, Tells of Her Life Here in ’80s s h Tesmer, | W1 | Chantilly shawl, which is nearly fifty t 1 night when the | dle iste wasn't allowed a mu pecial Dispateh 1o The Star CARTERSVILLE, Ga., June & er eighty-eighth birth a ary, which will be celebrated -On hiver- here | tomorrow, Mrs. W. I elton. the nly woman cver qualified as a “nited States senator, will wear the | } 1 i ace gown in which she t the time she v of the board the Chicago Paim As 1o to was dressed ted a mem managers with was el of exposition, president of the »is undecided her Canton old wear erepe, is seventy vears or her In looking back ighty-eight years Mrs oday the little her life of 1ton dwelt which over ¥ on things representatives to co-operate with the | Probably will be forgotten when her police. announcing at the same time | biography is writte conpare said. T be- six years old nd didu't stop until I was seventy. remember onece I didn't have a sad- horse, so I le a pacing mule nd it one of the best mounts 1 ‘We had a strict Pre: in our community hyterian mi and dancing But in sy of tha asionally and played t paniments, sometimes my owi went cco ve been on the stage, too, like a | regular show gal. The opera ‘Ernani Mrs. | while 1 part in it was given and 1 took banjo. I graduated at M. College when 1 was seventeen,” Mrs Felton added, “and Dr. Felton, the man 1 married, delivered the grad- uating add He called me ‘little girl) “and_right after that came courtin’. Twelve months later our wedding took pl I wore my trav- eling dress, a silver gray cashmere, because it wasx a day wedding. “When the war came on and Sher- man began his march through Georgia. 1 refugeed with my servants and two small children to Macon. My children died because of the exposure. T have had five children, but one only is living, Mrs. Felton's husband Congress for three terms. to 1881 “1 shall 1 wore to my ception.” she was ut Monroe, and played the son Female served from 1875 ver forget the dress | first White House re- said. “It was of heav | brown sill. with a silk velvet pol- {ona nd fit like a glove. A polonaise, dear child, is a very long basque. drawn in at the back | “Mrs. Haves, the wife of President | Hayes onc of my very best friends in Washingtan, T had a sick child while I was there and Mrs. Hayes would dri in her carriage to our hotel almost every day to in quir about hoy. Mrs. Garfield, wife of I arfield, was 180 a very g ous lady And another of my de friends g Belva Lock- most brilliant law- vers dentia (Copyright, 19 —_—mmmm—m—m—e _—_——_— {25 HURT IN OVERTURNED STREET CAR IN TOLEDO Fire After Accident Causes Panic. B: twenty-five shol Two of Injured Passengers May Die. + the Associated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, June 9.-—More than persons were injured, a of them perhaps seriously, Iy after 6 o'clock last night, when street car overturned at Ashland and lingwood avenues and caught fire, umber causing a panic. a wrned side of the m 2 22, The car, whi ccommodate All the _injured Evno Myra The only exit was through the shat- ered and open windows on the up- ar. The motor- ely demolished. nan’s booth was compl SN SUNDAY BRITISH SHIPS TO BE DRY ON TRIPS BACK TO EUROPE Vessels Will Carry Only Enough | Liquor to Get Them to Three- Mile Limit. B the Awsociated Pross, SOUTHAMPTON. June An- nouncement is made that on and after June 10, Britlsh vessels will carry their westbound voyages to the United®States only sufficient alcoholic iquors to bring them to the three- mile limit. They will make the re- turn trip to Europe dry. The White Star line steamer Ma- jestie. which will be the first v to sail under the new regulations. will _have its liquor stores curtafled one-haif the usual quantity —_— The word hairbreadth, now for infinitesimal space., once named a regular measure was the width of sixteen hairs laid side by slde. BARGAINS EIGHT NEW MODERN HOMES Orposite the Beutiful Government eservation of Kendall Green OPEN FOR INSPECTION 1201 to 1211 West Virginia Avenue and 1114 to 1116 Morse Street Northeast One-Half Block Above Florida Ave. Price $7,950 $1,000 Cash—Balance $75 Monthly Including All Interest Corner hou se, 39,850 with brick garage, Six Iarge rooms and bath, hot-water 33-ft. front heat, electric lights, large lots to alley, shades, hardwood floors, stationary tubm. Plenty' room for gardens, garage and flowers. a used One Block from Cars THE BEST BUY IN THE CITY Here You Have City and Countrs Combimed AND EVENINGS L. J. MILLS, Exclusive Agent 805 5th St. N.W. A L oo 629 to 651 Irving St. N.W. $8,750 $1,000.00 Cash $75 Month, Including All Interest 12 Buildings; 8 Already Sold Two-story tapestry brick bath. Every modern conyenience; hardwood floors and trim; h eat, electric lights, built-in refrigerator; cement front porch; large rear and sleeping porches; deep lot to 20-ft. alley. These homes offer the best value in the market today. SALESMEN ON PREMISES Daily and Sunday The Realty & Investment Corporation OF Washington (Exclusive Agents) hot-water 735 13th St. NW. Main 4561 homes of six large rooms and I L A R L R I A Main 2908 WASHINGTON in D. C. SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1923, - REAL ESTATE. 19 CRNKER WILL CASE WITNESS TAKEN ILL Hospital. By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, June 9.—Mrs. Clara Bing- ham of Northampton, Mass., a witness in the contest of the will of Richard Croker, now being heard here, was taken suddenly ill last evening. At a hospital it was said her condition” was eritical By tie Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Calif.. June 9.-— Vincent Jones, vice president of the California Psychical Research Soclety, told newspaper interview- ers thoughts bave been photo- graphed, and exhibited a series of thought photographs to prove his assertions. New Clue Found in Murder of Movie Director, Mysterious- ly Slain*in 1921. Tacoma was taken from Taylor, ac- cording to Hefner's story. Hefner, when he was a prisoner here a year ago on & charge of stealing an auto mobile, led officers to where he said the cache was. He told them that it ontained a diamond ring and $200,- 000 in bonds, and seemed much dis- appointed when they found nothing. White told the sheriff that before | communicating with the officers Hef- ner had talked with him about the things supposed to _be in the o nd had said t Taylor was by a bandit gang of five, e Hefner. Hefner sa ticipate in the killin plained that when he hea ner had left Seattle unde he kept 0 One was of a cross made under his auspices in a laboratory in San Francisco in the presence of Frank T. Collins, J. C. Anthony, cil E. Nixon and Henry K. Hup- rt, all residents of that city, he By the Associated Pres SEATTLE, Wash. June 9.—In-| quirfes to reach all over the country are being pushed out from here today by Sheriff Matt Starwich, who has picked up a fresh clue to the mys- terious slaying in Hollywood, Califor- nia, eighteen months ago, of Will Desmond Taylor, movie directar. purpose of these inquiries is to find Otis Hefner, described as a big Texan, once a stockman and later a bandit The sherlff got interested in the case | yesterday, when Crawford E. White, a | lawyer of this city, told him that a| diamond ring which Hefner had said he had cached between Seattle and| mera is not used in "hestated. “Only led plate or film is required. Any one Wwho has the power of koncentra- tion. who can think clearly. def- inite and conclsely should try the experiment “In taking the thought picture of the cross an ordinary photo- graphic plate was wrapped in an opaque black paper, securely seal- the = silent Even Thoughis Are Pictured smercan womwn i crvet con.| AN Liattest Psychic Experiment, INTAVLORKILLNG == 2 i i low envelope and sus- inches before the experimenter xubject wrote on a piece of paper the thing he would concen trate on and handed it to a mem ber of the committee supervising the test. He drew a rough sketeh of the object, studied it five min utes, luid ‘It _aside and concentrated next for ten minutes on the photo- Kraphic plate, but without toneh & it. We then tdok the plate 1o an adjoining darkroom and developed it with the result the Cross came out clear and strong The subject “had writien on e plece of ‘paper given the commit- teemen the words ‘T will thin} of a cross’ We have made other pictures since then. We even ha had persons hold strips their foreheads from t ty minutes and obt of objects in varying degrecs clearness.” B — The man who rides a_ hobby get it to respond to th ent an't al" spur of — UL UL T U T T T T T T O APARTMENTS New Building—Elevator Service Three and Four Rooms and Bath THE WOODLAND Cathedral Ave. and Connecticut Ave, desirabilit necticut Ave. AR You w showers, maid’s room with bath the semi-detached houses 29 feet cars The prices are most cash and $150 per month is an average monthly saving. monthly payments. Thomas J. Fisher and Company, Inc. Real Estate ‘Brokers 738 15th Street N.W, ESTABLIST reasonable ncluding all interest Connecticut Ave. Bridge Woodley Park—a zoned and restricted section of social and enhancing value. Exhibit house 2826 Con- f ill find in these properties complete city homes of two stories, attic, breakfast and inclos ed sleeping porches. 3 haths, 2 The lots are 24 feet front, with front. Brick garages for two The terms Of this sum $94 Larger cash payments reduce the All cash may be paid Your Own Broker or Middaugh & Shannon, Inc. Woodward Building, 15th and H Sts. | | | | liberal—$2,000 | | | l | LU SZASRS Feature Number - Two “Location” —-these sterling features have made possible the sensational growth of CHEVY el ¢ CHASE TERRACE How to Reach Property Drive out Con- necticut to Bradley out Bradley Lane to Wisconsin, turn to leit, 150 feet to property—or Avenue Lane, drive out Massachusetts UNUSUAL SALESMANSHIP—FORCED DEALS--AND SHEER LUCK— Avenue have not been responsible. We are absolutely “SOLD” on the idea that CHEVY CHASE TERRACE SOLD—ITSELF. The only effort in connection with selling anyone interested in Suburban Property or Property Investment to GET THEM HERE—WHEN THEY SEE THE ELEVATION—VIEW THE EX- QUISITE SETTING AND ENVIRONS—SEE WHAT IMPROVEMENTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED and then compare it with other properties— THEIR DECISION IS IN FAVOR OF CHEVY CHASE TERRACE: “WADDY WOOD” —Famous Architect has already started work on 10 homes. Avenue UNLIMITED RESOURCES SEE THEM WITH YOUR OWN EYES. Streets have al- ready been cut through as wide as Sixteenth street, and the pavements and curbing are already under construc- tion—every other improve- ment has been brought here —ELECTRICITY, GAS, WATER AND 10 HOMES ALREADY STARTED!—We TERRACE will wish to call particular attention to the fact that 10 homes have already been started in CHEVY CHASE TERRACE, at an estimated cost of $200,000.00. WOOD, perhaps the best known architect in this city, is the man who has planned these homes—BEAUTY will, therefore be a guar- anteed feature! it so. to Wisconsin and out Wisconsin to prop- erty—or take Connecticut or Rockville cars and get off at Bradley I.ane and walk over. RESTRICTIONS > —Are being rigidly enforced so that every land-owner in CHEVY CHASE be assured an in- vestment which will be ever-increas- ing and a home-site that will out- rival any in or around Washington, for CHEVY CHASE TERRACE has been proclaimed THE MOST EX- CLUSIVE SECTION CHASE—and -WE mean OF CHEVY to keep 'YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF TO SEE THIS PROPERTY LOTS Terms: 10% Cash Balance may be arranged in a series of convenient payments over a period of four years. 5c to 40c below elevation. are all the 351-ft. WASHINGTON OFFICE, 702-704 DISTRICT NATIONAL BANK—PHONE MAIN 272 Salesman Always on Hand at Tract Office, 6400 Wisconsin Avenue. MINOR-COOPE INCORPORATED 2R Yz —Iless than the price of any of the adjoining properties—which Square Foot “Terrace’ s nman s aan s Phone Cleveland 2401 REALTY - S